Homicide victim identified as man accused in high-profile sexual assault case
CBC
The victim of a homicide in Dartmouth early Saturday has been identified as a man accused in a high-profile sexual assault case.
Halifax Regional Police identified the man as 35-year-old Alexander Joseph Frederick Thomas from East Preston on Sunday.
Thomas was arrested in February 2020, nearly two years after a Halifax woman alleged she was abducted outside a Dartmouth, N.S., bar in May 2018 and raped by at least two men.
Carrie Low has since been vocal about her experience and how the Halifax police systemically mishandled the investigation. Last April, a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge ordered the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner to re-examine the case.
Thomas had been awaiting trial on charges of sexual assault and forcible confinement. He was expected back in court this month.
Early Saturday, officers were called to a home on Braeside Court in Dartmouth about a report of an unresponsive man.
Thomas was found dead inside the home, and police considered the death suspicious.
Police say the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service conducted an autopsy Saturday night and ruled the death a homicide.
The investigation is ongoing and police are still at the residence as of Sunday morning.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call police at 902-490-5020.
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