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Sandra (Ennis) Nunn
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 Posted - 08/17/2005 : 9:06:01 PM
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Wednesday, August 17, Globeandmail.com - EDMONTON, Alberta -- Earlier this week, police announced that they had tracked down the person who allegedly dropped a basketball-sized boulder on a school bus, killing the 75-year-old driver more than three years ago.
Detective Ernie Schreiber said that the accused, who was 16 when the crime occurred, was a potential suspect early in the 2002 investigation, but added that it took public assistance and a lot of police work, including an undercover operation, to nab him on Monday night.
Robert Stanley was driving a chartered bus back to the garage around 12:30 a.m. on June 1, 2002, when a 14-kilogram rock hurtled through his windshield, hitting him in the stomach. It had been dropped from a pedestrian overpass.
Bruce Stanley wants his father's senseless death to remind young people to think twice before participating in "stupid pranks." "Half a second or a quarter of a second could have resulted in nothing -- and that's all it took," he said.
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Original story from 2002 . . .
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14 kg rock kills bus driver
Boulder thrown from overpass
By RACHEL EVANS-- Sun Media - EDMONTON -- City police have identified the 75-year-old school-bus driver killed early Saturday after a 14-kilogram rock was thrown from an overpass onto his vehicle. Autopsy results released yesterday showed Edmonton family man Robert Arthur Stanley died of blunt force trauma to the abdomen after the windshield of his bus imploded on Whitemud Drive around 12:30 a.m. He was dying a full two hours on the floor of the bus before police found him. "We believe the object that was dropped from the pedestrian bridge struck Mr. Stanley in the abdomen area and he died as a result of that injury," said city homicide Det. Ernie Schreiber. The pedestrian overpass has a clearance of 7.7 metres, which means the heavy rock would have been falling at about 50 kilometres per hour when it hit the bus. Stanley managed to pull over and park the westbound Golden Arrow school bus, leaving his hazard lights flashing.
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Sandra (Ennis) Nunn
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Posted - 10/18/2005 : 11:55:48 AM
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New evidence led to charges in bus driver death
October 18, 2005 - Edmonton Journal, EDMONTON, Alberta -- Two 18 year olds were charged with manslaughter this week in the death of 75-year-old Robert Stanley, who was killed June 1, 2002, when a rock smashed through the windshield of the school bus he was driving on the Whitemud Freeway.
A 19 year old man was charged in August with his death but prosecutors entered a stay-of-proceedings in his case, which effectively drops the charges.
Det. Ernie Schreiber said today that after they charged the man, they received information from a woman identifying two other teens as the perpetrators.
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news
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Posted - 06/29/2006 : 5:21:05 PM
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Threw rock that killed man, teen gets house arrest
Jun. 29, 2006 - Toronto Star - EDMONTON — A young man who dropped a basketball-sized boulder from an overpass that smashed through the windshield of a school bus, killing the 75-year-old driver, has been sentenced to six months of house arrest and 18 months of probation.
Judge Danielle Dalton said jail was not necessary to hold the youth to account, and could actually hurt his chances of rehabilitation and reintegration into society.
She suggested the deadly prank was the result of the teen's immaturity — he was 15 at the time — and that he did not deliberately set out to kill anyone.
"Adolescent stupidity at its zenith, not malevolence, caused the death of Robert Stanley," the judge said Thursday.
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william
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Posted - 06/29/2006 : 9:47:15 PM
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You can always count on the bleeding-hearted judges to further deny someone's family justice. Did not set out to kill anyone? I don't see how you could be 15 years old and not understand if you drop a 14 kilogram rock, almost 31 lbs, onto a vehicle that the potential exists' for someone to be killed. Six months of house arrest seems to me to be an insult to this gentleman.
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