The Chronicle Herald (Provincial)
Man dead after shooting in Dartmouth park
A 22-year-old man died after he was shot in a park on the Dartmouth waterfront on Wednesday night.
Police responded to a report of gunshots in the Alderney Landing area at about 7:30 p.m. and found the wounded man. He died about an hour later in hospital, Halifax Regional Police said in a release.
Officers, including a K-9 unit and members of the emergency response team, searched the area. Three people were arrested and police say they are not looking for any other suspects.
The shooting happened near the World Peace Pavilion and Kiwanis Club playground in Ferry Terminal Park.
The area remained completely taped off by police much of Thursday. At least 10 evidence markers were visible near the pavilion.
A police car remained parked inside the park.
Police haven't yet released the victim's name, but several posts online identify him as Tyler Algee.
A female friend named Renee Ann posted on Facebook that she saw Tyler get shot.
“I love you renee were the last words that were said to me after i watched this man shoot the love of my life with a shot ... to the chest i held him and tried to stop the bleeding i love you tyler algee your my king and always will be,” the post read.
She later posted that “I'm sorry i couldn't do more I'm going to put this man away ... I'm sick im terrified for my life now.”
She said she was an arm’s length away from him when he was shot, and that the shooter appeared to be someone who had lost a fight to Algee the day before.
Nova Kickboxing posted on its Facebook page that Algee, a member of Fit Plus Martial Arts in Halifax, had fought at one of its events and helped out behind the scenes with production setup at another.
Online mixed martial arts pages show Algee as having fought one amateur fight in 2018.
Another site said that Algee was not ranked because he had been inactive for two years.
The Chronicle Herald has learned the Algee had 10 charges pending in Dartmouth provincial court for a variety of offences, including robbery, assault, uttering threats and breaching release conditions. He was released on bail Monday and placed on house arrest at an address on Cunard Street in Halifax.
It was the 15th shooting and fourth shooting death in the Halifax Regional Municipality this year. Four other people have been injured.
Halifax Regional Police spokesman Const. John Macleod said investigators are still conducting interviews, and he doubts more information would be released Thursday, or that charges will be laid before evening.
“I’m not expecting a whole lot more information today,” he said. “I know that they’re still gathering information, but I’m not expecting there will be more I’ll be able to release today. It will most likely be (Friday) morning before I have anything different to put out.”
Sources familiar with the investigation into Wednesday’s shooting said two men and a woman were taken into custody.
One of the men, a 23-yearold from Elmsdale who used to live in Dartmouth, has more than 15 convictions on his criminal record. He has five convictions for firearmrelated offences, one for assault with a weapon and four for assault.
He’s also scheduled to stand trial in Dartmouth provincial court in October on five charges, including assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and has more than a dozen other active charges in Dartmouth wellness court.
The Herald was unable to confirm the backgrounds of the other two individuals.
Algee once lived at 33 Hastings St. in Dartmouth, before his house arrest order that required him to be on Cunard Street, court records show. That address on Hastings Street is where police ended up early Thursday morning after a fight and a stabbing incident that left three people injured, but it appears to be coincidental at this point, Macleod said.
“The information I have at this point is there is no information to suggest that either one of the incidents are connected,” he said.
The other fatal shootings in 2021 all happened within in the first eight weeks of this year.
• On Jan. 27 at about 12:55 a.m., RCMP were called to Clarence Street in North Preston after shots were fired. Quintez Downey, 20, of North Preston died in hospital of his injuries.
• On Feb. 7 at 8:50 p.m., police responded to a shooting in the 600 block of Washmill Lake Drive in Halifax. Brandon Polegato, 26, was found dead at the scene.
• On Feb. 20 at 2:10 p.m., Joseph Beals, 25, of Dartmouth, was shot while driving near the intersection of Mount Edward Road and Cranberry Crescent in Dartmouth. His car then crashed into a pole. Beals died in hospital.