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Here's an article from today's Winnipeg Sun newspaper about a guy who died in my hometown here in Winnipeg, Canada just over this past weekend. Apparrently from what I've heard, the guy's face was in the snow so he couldn't breathe and he died. An unfortunate occurance that might have been avoided if the bouncers had proper training in restraining people.
-RP
'He wasn't a fighter'
Victim 'big teddy bear': widow
By CARY CASTAGNA, POLICE REPORTER
The 28-year-old man killed outside a Pembina Highway nightclub early Saturday morning was a fun-loving practical joker who didn't like violence, his grieving widow says. "He would rather walk away than fight," Tessa Hanson told The Sun yesterday. "He was a big teddy bear."
James Ronald Hanson died outside The Beach at 1792 Pembina Hwy. shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, after three bouncers allegedly subdued him while trying to break up a fight.
Gregory James Everett, 23, Adam David Bidzinski, 20, and Christopher Enrique Gonzales, 19, all employed by Canad Inns at the Fort Garry Express location, have been charged with manslaughter.
Tessa said her husband will be cremated and she will bring his ashes to the accuseds' court appearances "so they can see what they did to him. Every time there's court, we'll be there."
The city's third homicide victim of 2004 didn't want to go out that fateful night, his wife recalled. But he was coaxed into stopping at the bar for a couple drinks with some relatives some time before midnight, Tessa added.
GOT INTO ALTERCATION
About two hours later, one of the relatives was kicked out of the club for "poor behaviour," police said. James accompanied him to the parking lot, where the two got into an altercation with some other people, police said.
While trying to break up the fight, hotel staff allegedly forced James to the ground, face down. Moments later, he wasn't breathing. An autopsy has been conducted, but police are awaiting toxicology and other test results before the cause of death is confirmed.
James and Tessa, who had been married for nearly nine years, were planning to start a family in the summer.
Affectionately known as Jamie, James worked as a machine operator for Omniglass Ltd., a fibreglass company in St. James.
A graduate of Technical Vocational School, James was a family man who wasn't into the bar scene, relatives said.
"He had a great outlook on life," said his cousin, Candace Heide. "He looked at the bright side of everything. He was always smiling and giggling. He loved to rent karaoke machines and have his family over."
James' death is the third tragedy to strike the family.
In October 2001, James' 19-year-old cousin, Wayne Joseph Hanson, was fatally stabbed outside the Maryland Hotel. Christopher Lee Prince, 22, was charged with first-degree murder.
Just last October, James's 72-year-old great-aunt, Merilyn Gladys Drury, was killed when the Dodge Shadow she was driving north on Salter Street was broadsided by a fire truck eastbound on Redwood Avenue.
Everett, Bidzinski and Gonzales were all released from custody yesterday on their own recognizance in the amount of $5,000. They were ordered to keep the peace, not to have contact with each other and not to attend at any Canad Inn locations. Their cases have been put over until May 6.
Meanwhile, the provincial government is considering introducing training standards for bouncers.
Charlene Lumoin, Manitoba's registrar for private investigators and security guards, said guards who work for security companies are regulated, but "in-house" guards and bouncers are not.
The province is looking at changing that, she said.
-RP
'He wasn't a fighter'
Victim 'big teddy bear': widow
By CARY CASTAGNA, POLICE REPORTER
The 28-year-old man killed outside a Pembina Highway nightclub early Saturday morning was a fun-loving practical joker who didn't like violence, his grieving widow says. "He would rather walk away than fight," Tessa Hanson told The Sun yesterday. "He was a big teddy bear."
James Ronald Hanson died outside The Beach at 1792 Pembina Hwy. shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, after three bouncers allegedly subdued him while trying to break up a fight.
Gregory James Everett, 23, Adam David Bidzinski, 20, and Christopher Enrique Gonzales, 19, all employed by Canad Inns at the Fort Garry Express location, have been charged with manslaughter.
Tessa said her husband will be cremated and she will bring his ashes to the accuseds' court appearances "so they can see what they did to him. Every time there's court, we'll be there."
The city's third homicide victim of 2004 didn't want to go out that fateful night, his wife recalled. But he was coaxed into stopping at the bar for a couple drinks with some relatives some time before midnight, Tessa added.
GOT INTO ALTERCATION
About two hours later, one of the relatives was kicked out of the club for "poor behaviour," police said. James accompanied him to the parking lot, where the two got into an altercation with some other people, police said.
While trying to break up the fight, hotel staff allegedly forced James to the ground, face down. Moments later, he wasn't breathing. An autopsy has been conducted, but police are awaiting toxicology and other test results before the cause of death is confirmed.
James and Tessa, who had been married for nearly nine years, were planning to start a family in the summer.
Affectionately known as Jamie, James worked as a machine operator for Omniglass Ltd., a fibreglass company in St. James.
A graduate of Technical Vocational School, James was a family man who wasn't into the bar scene, relatives said.
"He had a great outlook on life," said his cousin, Candace Heide. "He looked at the bright side of everything. He was always smiling and giggling. He loved to rent karaoke machines and have his family over."
James' death is the third tragedy to strike the family.
In October 2001, James' 19-year-old cousin, Wayne Joseph Hanson, was fatally stabbed outside the Maryland Hotel. Christopher Lee Prince, 22, was charged with first-degree murder.
Just last October, James's 72-year-old great-aunt, Merilyn Gladys Drury, was killed when the Dodge Shadow she was driving north on Salter Street was broadsided by a fire truck eastbound on Redwood Avenue.
Everett, Bidzinski and Gonzales were all released from custody yesterday on their own recognizance in the amount of $5,000. They were ordered to keep the peace, not to have contact with each other and not to attend at any Canad Inn locations. Their cases have been put over until May 6.
Meanwhile, the provincial government is considering introducing training standards for bouncers.
Charlene Lumoin, Manitoba's registrar for private investigators and security guards, said guards who work for security companies are regulated, but "in-house" guards and bouncers are not.
The province is looking at changing that, she said.
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