Incident that killed one, left another seriously injured being investigated as homicide: RCMP

The RCMP are now treating an incident this past weekend that left one man dead and another seriously injured as a homicide.

At a downtown apartment around 5:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, police found John Paul Wifladt, a 39-year-old diamond polisher and Colin Digness, a clerk at Videoland, unresponsive and “both suffering from serious injuries.”

Longtime friends, Wifladt and Digness were last seen leaving a Christmas party in N’Dilo around three or four in the morning, according to Wifladt’s brother, Tommy, whose cousin was at the party.

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Wifladt died Sunday in Stanton Hospital and Digness was medevaced to Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton where he remains in critical condition, according to an RCMP release this afternoon.

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