Yemane — who worked for decades as a nurse and was employed at the Misericordia Community Hospital — was active in promoting leukemia awareness in the local African Canadian and Eritrean communities, and acted as president of the Nega Alem Memorial Leukemia Awareness Society. He also volunteered with Eritrean youth in Edmonton.
“He was a pillar of the community. He was a good man,” Edmonton P0lice Service Sgt. Steve Sharpe said Tuesday. “His family are puzzled at this time, as are police, to what would a potential motive be. There’s nothing to suggest why he or his family would be targeted.”
