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Sentencing arguments expected for man in fatal shooting outside Walmart in Alberta

Jun 9, 2022 | 8:01 AM

RED DEER, Alta. — A sentencing hearing is to begin today for a man who shot and killed a shopper outside a Walmart store in central Alberta.

Chase Freed, who is 20, pleaded guilty on Monday to the second-degree murder of Jim Williams in Red Deer in December 2019.

RCMP said at the time that a masked man armed with a sawed-off semi-automatic rifle shot Williams, who was 69, in front of his wife in the store’s parking lot during an attempted robbery.

Williams died in hospital.