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10-year sentence for manslaughter

Red Deer triple stabbing victims recovering from their injuries, accused has extensive criminal past

Apr 2, 2024 | 12:38 PM

Local Mounties say the victims of a triple stabbing in Red Deer last month are all recovering from their injuries.

According to RCMP, the first victim, who was sent to hospital in life-threatening condition, is on the mend and no longer in serious condition. Meantime, the second victim and the officer who suffered injuries are also well on the mend, while a second officer who was bit, is also doing fine.

RCMP say their investigation has also determined that the accused did not know any of his victims.

Records obtained by rdnewsNOW through Alberta Justice also reveal an extensive criminal history for the accused, including a 10-year sentence for manslaughter.

An initial statement from police said the accused did not know his second victim, nor the officer he allegedly stabbed later, but RCMP were still working to determine if he knew the first victim.

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Following investigation, RCMP have determined he didn’t know the first victim either.

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“RCMP continue the investigation into the March 18 attack in downtown Red Deer,” Cpl. Troy Savinkoff, Alberta RCMP, tells rdnewsNOW.

“We have no indication that the suspect knew either of the victims and both attacks appear to lack any specific motivation. Our officers continue to solicit local businesses for video surveillance of the area before and during the incident.”

The accused, 34-year-old Randall Andrew Cardinal, is scheduled to be back in a Red Deer courtroom on April 9 to speak to the following charges:

• Aggravated assault of Peace Officer
• Assaulting Peace Officer causing bodily harm
• Aggravated assault (x2)
• Assault with a weapon
• Possession of a weapon for dangerous purpose
• Assaulting Peace Officer with intent to resist arrest (x2)
• Resist peace officer in execution of his duty
• Carrying concealed weapon

Meantime, rdnewsNOW has learned more about Cardinal’s criminal past.

According to Alberta Justice, Cardinal has had to deal with the following (date given is date of offence)

• July 16, 2013 – given a 10-year prison sentence in a Wetaskiwin courtroom for manslaughter, and a one-year sentence for assault causing bodily harm (a second count of assault was dismissed)
• July 14, 2014 – given a seven-day prison sentence in a Red Deer courtroom for obstruct/resist peace officer (two counts of failure to comply with conditions were withdrawn)
• Jan. 24, 2013 – 10 counts of varying nature dismissed in a Wetaskiwin courtroom
• May 1, 2013 to July 16, 2013 – given a $500 fine in a Wetaskiwin courtroom for breach of probation (a second count of breach of probation was withdrawn)
• Aug. 21, 2012 to Nov. 6, 2012 – given two $500 fines in a Wetaskiwin courtoom for two counts of breach of probation
• April 12, 2011 – given 18 months of probation in a Red Deer courtroom for one count of assault (a separate count of assault was withdrawn); given 18 months of probation for observe/make visual recording (Voyeurism-CC 162(1))

According to a Global News article from July 17, 2013, Cardinal, then 23, was charged with second-degree murder in connection to the death of 30-year-old Jared Brown during an incident on Pigeon Lake First Nation.

The charge was later changed to manslaughter and he was sentenced to 10 years, less 458 days for time served, on Feb. 9, 2015. That left him with eight years and nine months left to serve, which would have gotten him out in fall 2023.

A charge of obstruct/resist peace officer on July 14, 2014, after he’d been charged with second-degree murder in July 2013, came while he’d been granted bail given in April 2014.

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