Crown prosecutors in Yellowknife have yet to decide if they will launch an appeal into the four-year jail sentence handed to a Yellowknife man who killed a City Cab driver back in November of 2018. Senior Crown prosecutor Alex Godfrey spoke with CKLB Thursday. “We have 60 days from the…
A Yellowknife man will serve just over two more years in custody after he admitted he chased down a Yellowknife cab driver in November 2018 and beat him to death. 20-year-old Elias Schiller was sentenced to four years in jail in Supreme Court In Yellowknife Tuesday, after he had earlier…
A Yellowknife man, 18-years-old at the time of his crime, is facing six years in jail for chasing and then beating a 73-year-old Yellowknife cab driver and then leaving him in the snow to die. 20-year-old Elias Schiller appeared in a packed Supreme Court in Yellowknife on Monday for the…
A Yellowknife father and son duo have pleaded guilty to reduced charges in connection to the death of a Yellowknife cab driver in 2018. 20-year old Elias Schiller pleaded guilty to manslaughter while his father James Schiller, 49, pleaded guilty to being an accessory to aggravated assault. Both pleas were…
Charges have been significantly reduced for a Yellowknife father and son duo who were originally charged with second-degree murder in the death of a Yellowknife taxi cab driver in November 2018. Elias Schiller, 19, is now charged with manslaughter and his father, 49-year-old James Schiller now faces a charge of…
A preliminary hearing which began Wednesday for a Yellowknife father and son charged with second-degree murder in the death of a city cab driver last fall has adjourned until September. Preliminary hearings are held to determine if there is enough evidence to send the case to trial. Evidence and testimony…