Barrhead man who pleaded guilty to stabbing awaits sentencing

BARRHEAD - A Barrhead man facing multiple serious charges will have to wait until April 17 to learn what he will be sentenced to after he pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including an aggravated assault, which required the victim to undergo surgery for injuries involved in a stabbing.

On April 9 at Barrhead Court of Justice, Kyle Tyson Quock, appearing via CCTV from the Edmonton Remand Centre, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault, one count of failure to comply with release order conditions and two counts of failure to comply with undertaking conditions.

The Crown decided to drop three other charges, which included threats to cause bodily harm, mischief damage over $5,000, two counts of failing to comply with an undertaking, and one count of failure to comply with release order conditions.

The Crown prosecutor, Anthony Estephan, applied to delay Quock's sentencing so that the victim of the crime could submit a victim impact statement. Justice Gordon Putnam granted the request.

The facts

According to Estephan, on Oct. 12, 2023, Quock was subject to an undertaking he signed at the Westlock RCMP Detachment. This undertaking prohibited him from attending a Town of Barrhead residence, except for a one-time appearance to pick up his belongings under police escort.

An RCMP member then gave Quock a courtesy ride from Westlock to Barrhead, dropping him off at roughly 9:45 a.m.

About 30 minutes later, Estephan said police received a complaint that Quock was at the Barrhead residence, that as part of the undertaking, he was prohibited from being at it, and that he refused to leave.

"When they attended, they found Quock hiding in the kitchen," he said.

Estephan said that, as a result of this incident, the accused was taken into custody and released the same day when he signed another undertaking, the conditions of which prohibited him from attending the previously mentioned residence and from making any contact or communicating with its occupants.

Four months later on Feb. 12, 2024, RCMP received a call from a man who was at the Barrhead Healthcare Centre, saying Quock had stabbed him during an altercation after he showed up at his residence, which he was prohibited from doing as part of multiple undertaking release orders.

"In his statement to police, [the victim] indicated that earlier that morning, Kyle Quock attended his residence intoxicated," Estephan said. "When [Quock] was told to leave, a struggle ensued involving mutual shoving leading to the back deck, where Quock pulled out a knife, stabbing the victim twice in the stomach."

At the time, Estephan noted that the victim did not realize that he had been stabbed, but he noticed blood, so he drove himself to the hospital.

"[He] was then transferred to the University of Alberta hospital where a CT scan revealed that a stab wound nicked his bowel and required emergency surgery," he said.

Estephan added police found Quock still at the residence, severely intoxicated and that a knife was in plain view on the kitchen table.

Barry Kerton, TownandCountryToday.com