Man pleads not guilty to killing three people, including father and toddler
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — A man accused in the deaths of three people in southwestern Alberta, including a two-year-old girl and her father, has pleaded not guilty.
Derek Saretzky, 24, was formally arraigned in a Lethbridge courtroom Monday before a lengthy pre-trial hearing which is under a publication ban.
Wearing a blue jumpsuit, Saretzky stood in the prisoner’s box and pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and one charge of committing an indignity to a human body.
The trial before a judge and jury is to begin June 5.