By Sheldon Spackman

Enough Evidence For Trial?

Preliminary hearing set for man charged in Red Deer homicide

Oct 28, 2021 | 3:25 PM

A preliminary hearing is scheduled to take place next summer for a man charged in a Red Deer homicide last year.

Dustin Mitchell, 26, of Red Deer, will have a three-day preliminary hearing starting Aug. 8, 2022 to find out if his case has enough evidence to go to trial.

Mitchell is facing one count of second-degree murder in the death of 34-year-old James Rufiange.

It was on Nov. 25, 2020 when Red Deer RCMP and the RCMP Major Crimes Unit were called to a residence on Stewart Street in the city’s Sunnybrook neighbourhood and arrived to find a deceased male inside.

Mounties believed the incident to be an isolated one, with Mitchell later arrested on Dec. 2, 2020.

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