Edmonton police lay murder charge after inmate killed inside remand centre
CBC
Edmonton police have charged an Edmonton Remand Centre inmate with second-degree murder in the death of another inmate last month.
Kai Keller, 32, is charged in the Dec. 18 death of Nathaniel Burchat, 26, police said in a news release Friday.
Burchat was injured in an altercation between two inmates, police said. He died in hospital the same day. An autopsy determined he died from a blunt-force head injury and that the manner of death was homicide.
Police completed an investigation and charged Keller, who remains in custody.
He appeared in court Friday. His next appearance is scheduled for Feb 14.
Keller is being held for trial on a first-degree murder charge in the December 2022 shooting death of Ashley Mawdsley in Calgary.
Burchat was being held in the remand centre on charges of assault, mischief and failure to attend court dates, after being accused of assaulting a man and damaging his phone on Dec. 2.
A former soldier, Burchat had serious mental health issues, according to his family.
Raised in a small town in Ontario, Nathaniel Burchat was the second youngest in a family of 10 children. One of his older brothers, Gabriel Burchat, said within the family he was called Nano.
Gabriel Burchat said Nathaniel joined the military and after basic training, went to Alberta to serve with Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, but was medically discharged in January 2024 due to escalating mental health issues.
"We've been worried about him for a long time," Gabriel Burchat said in an interview with CBC this week.
Nathaniel experienced seizures and had several diagnosed mental health conditions. His family believes he may have had schizophrenia as well as PTSD.
Some of his brothers had visited him in Edmonton since his release from the military, trying to support him as he was struggling. They didn't know he'd been arrested and held in the remand centre until they were informed of his death.
Gabriel Burchat said despite all of Nathaniel's issues in recent years, the church was packed at his funeral earlier this month.
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