{"id":8604,"date":"2025-04-24T10:13:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8604"},"modified":"2025-04-24T11:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:53:24","slug":"queens-county-man-latest-victim-of-intimate-partner-violence-nova-scotia-rcmp-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/04\/24\/queens-county-man-latest-victim-of-intimate-partner-violence-nova-scotia-rcmp-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens County man latest victim of intimate partner violence, Nova Scotia RCMP say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8246\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8246\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rcmpsnow-1024x870.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rcmpsnow-1024x870.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rcmpsnow-768x652.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/rcmpsnow.jpg 1527w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Queens County man is the latest victim of intimate partner violence in Nova Scotia, RCMP say. (RCMP)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">RCMP have charged a man with second-degree murder in a domestic assault in Queens County in late March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On March 28 at 3:30 a.m., Queens District RCMP and paramedics responded to a weapons call at a home in Mill Village.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They found an 84-year-old man with life-threatening injuries after being stabbed. Another man fled earlier in a vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Officers arrested a suspect later that morning, at about 7:45 a.m. at a home in Voglers Cove.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Derek Dominix, 60, of Mill Village was charged then with attempted murder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 84-year-old man died on April 11 in hospital, where he had been since the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Nova Scotia medical examiner\u2019s office ruled the death a homicide, according to an RCMP news release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Police say it\u2019s a case of intimate partner violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Southwest Nova RCMP major crime unit took over the investigation and upgraded the attempted murder charge to second-degree murder on April 22.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dominix remains in custody and will appear in Bridgewater provincial court on May 15, at 9:30 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the ninth person killed because of intimate partner violence in Nova Scotia since Oct. 18, 2024. Seven women have been killed in cases linked to their male partners. In one of those cases, a woman\u2019s father was also killed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An RCMP spokeswoman said they won&#8217;t be releasing the victim&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone experiencing, or at risk of, intimate partner violence can seek help anonymously by calling 211 or 1-855-225-0220.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:rickconradqccr@gmail.com\">rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RCMP have charged a man with second-degree murder in a domestic assault in Queens County in late March. On March 28 at 3:30 a.m., Queens District RCMP and paramedics responded to a weapons call at a home in Mill Village.\u00a0\u00a0 They found an 84-year-old man with life-threatening injuries after being stabbed. Another man fled earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[3016,2175,3049,2177,3052,924,1612,49,1583,94,3050,3051],"class_list":["post-8604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-derek-dominix","tag-domestic-violence","tag-homicide","tag-intimate-partner-violence","tag-intimate-partner-violence-death","tag-mill-village","tag-nova-scotia-rcmp","tag-queens-county","tag-queens-district-rcmp","tag-rcmp","tag-second-degree-murder","tag-southwest-nova-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8604"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8613,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions\/8613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}