EDMONTON — Police in Edmonton have charged a man in the killing of a seven-year-old girl.
David Michael Moss, who is 34, faces a charge of second-degree murder in the death of Bella Rose Desrosiers.
Police say Moss had been visiting the girl's mother on Monday night at her home in the Mill Woods neighbourhood.
They allege the man stabbed the girl in front of her mother and the woman tried to intervene.
She performed life-saving measures on the child until paramedics arrived.
The girl could not be saved and died at the scene.
Melissa Desrosiers said in an online message that she was planning to host a vigil to honour her daughter at the family's home Wednesday night.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 20, 2020
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