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By David Opinko

Lethbridge man charged in connection to homicide

May 9, 2022 | 3:36 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – A man has been charged in what the Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) says was the city’s first homicide of 2022.

Police were called to the intersection of 8 Street and 2 A Avenue North at approximately 8:24 p.m. on Thursday, May 5, 2022.

Following a verbal altercation between two men, police say the victim was struck by the suspect and fell to the ground, sustaining life-threatening head injuries.

The LPS says the suspect fled the area but was apprehended later that evening without incident.

Police say the victim, Amber Khadka, was initially transported to Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge, and later transferred to a hospital in Calgary, where he died of his injuries on Saturday, May 7, 2022.

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An autopsy was completed by the Medical Examiner’s Officer in Calgary on Monday, May 9. The autopsy results indicated that Khadka’s death was the result of a homicide.

The LPS says the victim and suspect knew each other and that this was a targeted incident.

Sheldon Nicholas LePage, 45, of Lethbridge, is charged with one count each of manslaughter, failing to comply with a release order, and failing to comply with a probation order.

LePage has been remanded in custody.