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A 33-year-old man made a brief appearance by telephone in Regina provincial court on Monday, during which a judge told him he was charged with murder.
Keli Stonechild’s appearance was somewhat delayed, as the court first spoke to another man with whom he was sharing a cell. The phone connection was lost more than once before the telephone could be handed to Stonechild.
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When the court did reach him by phone, Judge Lane Wiegers read the charge to him in full.
“You’re charged that on the 24th day of April, 2025, at or near Regina, you did unlawfully cause the death of William Allan Campbell, and did thereby commit first-degree murder,” the judge said.
Stonechild said that he understood the charge.
He noted he’d only been in contact with a lawyer briefly when he’d been in police custody and told the judge he wished to speak with a Legal Aid Saskatchewan lawyer about his charge.
A publicly-funded defence lawyer was assigned to him and he was remanded into custody to appear on a date in May.
Stonechild’s charge was announced Sunday via a news release from the Regina Police Service (RPS).
It noted that the charge relates to an April 24 incident when police and EMS were dispatched to the 800 block of Victoria Avenue, where an injured man was located and declared deceased a short time later.
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The news release indicates that officers from the Major Crimes Unit and the Forensic Identification Unit were called in to assist in the investigation, which was being handled by police in conjunction with the Saskatchewan Coroners Service.
The incident caused police to shut down both eastbound and westbound lanes of Victoria Avenue between Broder and Winnipeg streets to traffic for a time.
The RPS considers Campbell’s death the city’s third homicide of 2025.
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