The Ontario Courtroom of Justice in Kingston is situated throughout the Macdonald-Cartier Constructing on Wellington Road. Photograph by Josie Vallier/Kingstonist.
Kyle Pyke, the person charged with second-degree homicide within the loss of life of an unidentified 33-year-old on Friday, Jul. 26, 2024, on Leroy Grant Drive in Kingston, made a quick courtroom look on Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. magistrate Jack Chiang presided over the bail courtroom listening to on the Ontario Courtroom of Justice on Wellington Road.
Pyke appeared by video from Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, the place he’s incarcerated, and was represented on-line by Dayna Ackland of Cremer Barristers in Toronto.
Ackland was requesting that Pyke’s matter be referred to a judicial pre-trial assembly in mid-December.
Kingston Police arrested Pyke virtually three weeks after an altercation left an individual deceased in downtown Kingston.
On Friday, Jul. 26, 2024, a big police presence enveloped the realm of Leroy Grant Drive simply north of Concession Road the place it meets Tub Highway and Princess Road (the “old traffic circle”). Police had been dispatched to the realm together with Frontenac Paramedics at round 8:15 that night time after receiving stories that a person had suffered critical accidents as the results of an altercation. Each emergency companies assisted the injured individual, who was transported to Kingston Basic Hospital (KGH); nevertheless, the 33-year-old was declared deceased on the hospital.
In a press launch on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, Kingston Police introduced an arrest had been made within the investigation into that murder. In keeping with police, at roughly 3:45 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024, the suspect was apprehended “outside a local business.”
In consequence, 34-year-old Kyle Pyke was charged with second-degree homicide and breach of launch situations.
Justice Chiang granted defence lawyer Ackland’s request for a mid-December judicial pre-trial assembly. Pyke will subsequent seem in courtroom in mid-December 2024.
Kingstonist will proceed to observe this matter because it strikes by the courts.
