CRACK: Lives lost to addiction

CRACK: Lives lost to addiction | Calgary & Alberta | News | Calgary Sun: "The power of crack drives not only property crimes, it’s forged a phrenetic battleground where addicts often wind up murdered on Calgary streets.

Eric Regimbald, a crackhead also embroiled in the trade, was left gasping for breath as blood emptied his body on a Chinatown road following a backseat dispute with another dealer on Aug. 27, 2006.

Just last month, jurors found Ryan Charles Everett, a 26-year-old drug dealer, guilty of manslaughter.

The violence continued in 2007, with at least one murder and several stabbings linked to crack.

Jacqueline Clara Crazybull, 44, bled to death on a Beltline street bench, stabbed in what friends described as a row over crack turf.

Four others were attacked within an hour that same early morning of July 11 by a group identified as three to four black men in a light-coloured car.

The bloodied and partially-clothed body of Tara Landgraf, who receded from friends and family into a spiralling crack addiction, was found on a Ramsay street in August that same year.

And in the case of Clifford Charles Hamilton, found slumped in a northeast alley Sept. 21, cops believe he may have been killed over as little as $100 worth or crack cocaine, a rock no bigger than an M&M."

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