The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) homicide section charged three men with killing an inmate at the Edmonton Institution..Cody Nicholls, 23, Brandon Newman, 21 and Dakota Cappo, 29 are all facing first-degree murder charges in the death of Bretton Fisher, 33..On Wednesday, July 27, police responded to the report of an injured male at the Edmonton Institution. When officers arrived, they found Bretton Fisher, 33, with life-threatening injuries. He was treated on scene by paramedics, but succumbed to his injuries..On Friday, July 29, an autopsy determined that Fisher died of a stab wound..In December, Newman was sentenced to a minimum of 14 years behind bars for the murder when, on October 25, 2019, Newman stabbed his care worker, 47-year-old Nigerian immigrant Deborah Onwu, to death at Woods Homes In Calgary. Newman stabbed her 19 times and caused fatal wounds to her lungs and heart..Nicholls is also no stranger to the law as he was the subject of a man hunt back in April of 2019. On March 13 2019, Tofield RCMP responded to a rural area near Highway 626 outside Strathcona County where they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. Nicholls was wanted at the time for attempted murder of this individual. He was later arrested, charged and convicted..Cappo made headlines when he was arrested in September 2016 and charged with first-degree murder and arson. .During his court case, in an agreed statement of facts, Cappo admitted he was high on methamphetamine on the morning of Nov. 29, 2015, when he started a fire in an apartment complex where his former common-law wife lived with their two children..The fire spread quickly throughout the building in the Queen Mary Park neighbourhood of Edmonton. Thirty-one people were evacuated from the building..During a door-to-door check, firefighters found Gregory Fenton unconscious inside Suite No. 303. He was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital, where he suffered a cardiac arrest and died on Dec. 4, 2015..It is unclear how the incident unfolded inside the Edmonton jail, if it was a planned attack or what type of weapon was used..At the time of his death, Fisher was two years into serving a seven-and-a-half year sentence for aggravated assault, break and enter, possession of a weapon contrary to a prohibition order, and robbery with use of a firearm.
