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By Sheldon Spackman

November 2020 Incident

Red Deer man sentenced in local homicide

Mar 21, 2023 | 1:48 PM

A Red Deer man charged in a local homicide has been sentenced to over six-and-a-half years in jail along with a lifetime firearms ban.

Dustin Mitchell, 27, was sentenced to 79 months behind bars in Red Deer Court of King’s Bench on January 13, 2023, after being convicted on one count of manslaughter/use of a firearm.

He was previously scheduled for trial in Red Deer on March 20, 2023, after the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service (ACPS) chose to proceed on the matter by way of direct indictment.

Mitchell was originally charged with second-degree murder in the death of 34-year-old James Rufiange, of Red Deer.

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.

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

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