Jessie Dyck charged with manslaughter in death of Tanya Campbell-Losier
CBC News | Posted: February 25, 2016 8:55 PM | Last Updated: February 25, 2016
Boyfriend initially charged with aggravated assault
STORY UPDATE: Jessie Dyck pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced on May 15, 2018 to 21 months in custody and three years of probation, as well as a lifetime firearm prohibition.
The man accused in the brutal assault of 19-year-old Tanya Campbell-Losier in Brooks is now facing a manslaughter charge in her death.
The young woman died in a Calgary hospital last weekend two days after the incident took place.
Her boyfriend Jessie Dyck had been initially charged with aggravated assault.
The 26-year-old remains in custody in Medicine Hat.
RCMP and EMS had been called to a Brooks residence at 3:55 a.m. last Friday and found Campbell-Losier with severe injuries.
Dyck is scheduled to make his next court appearance on March 1.
Community impact
Campbell-Losier's mom, Lorraine Losier, spoke to CBC News about her loss this week.
"I want to go in a field and run and run and run and run until I fall down. That's not going to bring her back. Nothing is going to bring her back," she said.
She knows from her own experience with abuse how difficult it is to leave.
"When you love somebody you think, 'Okay, they're going to change,' especially when they tell you 'I'm going to change, I'm never doing that to you again. Never, ever, ever.' I've been in that position myself," she said.
Shauna Bell, the executive director of Cantara Safe House in Brooks, says the death has affected the entire community — a town where over 10 per cent of the population sought help from the local women's shelter last year.