Southern Alberta man sentenced to 8 years for punching and kicking his wife to death in parking lot

Court heard he punched and kicked his spouse as she lay unconscious in a Lethbridge parking lot

Image | Lethbridge courthouse

Caption: (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)

A southern Alberta man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for fatally beating his wife.
Rodney Yellow Old Woman, who is 53, had been charged with second-degree murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
Court heard he punched and kicked his wife, Trixie Chief Moon, last September as she lay unconscious in a downtown Lethbridge parking lot.
She died later in hospital of her injuries.
He told police he was trying to wake her up.
A city police officer witnessed the attack and tried to intervene.