Police make homicide arrest

The Medicine Hat Police service is investigating a homicide and has arrested one suspect.

MHPS Insp. Tim McGough says 24year-old Donald Goodwill has been arrested and charged in relation to the incident.

Goodwill is facing one count of second degree murder and is scheduled to appear in court in Saskatchewan on Dec. 15 before being returned to Alberta in relation to this charge later next week.

“All I can say is that the suspect was arrested on the Friday,” said McGough. “The investigation is still early and I can’t say what led us to the suspect, but I can say he was arrested in Saskatchewan.”

MHPS responded to a missing person check Thursday at noon at an apartment on Fifth Avenue SE and started the homicide investigation after an autopsy — for which they received results on Friday. McGough says police never want to assume things about a crime scene.

“We never want to jump to conclusions — we always want the evidence to lead us to the correct findings,” he said. “We had our suspicions, but we always leave it to experts to determine how we should treat a scene, in this case it was results from the medical examiner.”

McGough says MHPS feels there is no danger to the public and that this is an isolated incident.

When asked if MHPS is looking for more suspects McGough said, “No, we are not.” He added updates will come when they are available and that an update could come Monday or Tuesday.

“It’s preliminary right now and the investigation has only been going on since Thursday,” he said. “This is a complex file, let me put it that way, and it’s going to take us a considerable amount of time to put this all together.

“Right now things are going really well, we have someone in custody and the timeline will be dictated by the court system.”

Anyone who may have any information is asked to contact MHPS at 403-529-8481 or Crime Stoppers at 1800-222-8477 (TIPS).