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The man accused of deliberately running down an innocent teen out for his nightly walk lives just 200 metres from the scene of the alleged crime.
The community of Bells Corners has mobilized to help the family of 17-year-old Nick Hickey, who police believe was intentionally attacked on Wednesday night. Volunteers across the neighbourhood raised money to cover the costs of Hickey’s funeral, a man donated a suit for him to be buried in and an anonymous donor has covered the fare of a cross-country flight so Hickey’s older sister can come home to say goodbye to her brother.
The man who now stands accused in Hickey’s death — Guillermo Escobedo-Hoyo — is himself a member of that same community.
Hickey was walking in the area of Hammill Court and Seyton Drive Wednesday evening when he was run over. Hickey routinely took long walks through the neighbourhood to help combat his stress and anxiety.
Guillermo Escobedo-Hoyo, a paralegal at Auger Hollingsworth according to his LinkedIn profile, is charged with second-degree murder. LinkedIn photo
Police allege that Escobedo-Hoyo, who had already allegedly hit a light standard and another vehicle, spotted Hickey and deliberately ran him down with his car. Police believe Escobedo-Hoyo then stripped naked and began trying to smash the windows of an OC Transpo bus on Route 97 through Bells Corners.
The man then ran through the neighbourhood on foot, startling several neighbours, asking for guns.
Escobedo-Hoyo was arrested, naked, inside a Jeep.
Homicide detectives quickly took over the investigation and charged Escobedo-Hoyo with second-degree murder.
The sequence of events has shocked the community of Bells Corners and those who knew both Hickey and the man accused of killing him. What remains for many, are questions about the accused killer’s state of mind at the time of the alleged crimes.
At the time of his arrest, little was known about the man, who sobbed during his court appearances last week, complained of frostbite to his toes and begged to be released from custody so he could sleep in his own bed.
This newspaper has learned that the 37-year-old paralegal at Auger Hollingsworth, a personal injury and criminal defence law firm, is a Mexican national who is in Canada on a work visa. He is a married stepfather to two children, and his family home is around the corner from the spot where teddy bears and flowers now mark where Hickey took his last breath.
In a statement, Brenda Hollingsworth, founding partner of the firm at which Escobedo-Hoyo worked, said the firm had learned that one of its employees had been charged with a “serious offence.”
“We are very sorry for the family of Nick Hickey, for the family of the employee and for the rest of our staff,” she said.
Escobedo-Hoyo’s employment at the firm was listed on a LinkedIn profile at the time of his arrest. That profile, and all of its contents, as well as a profile belonging to the his wife — Heather Harris, an accounting clerk — were promptly taken down from the employment networking site.
Nicholas Hickey, 17, was mowed down by a driver around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday on Seyton Drive near Hammill Court in Bells Corners. Family photo.
Harris answered the door at her Bells Corners home Sunday afternoon and politely declined to comment on the charges against her husband. She also requested privacy.
Several people who know Escobedo-Hoyo, speaking on the condition their names not be published, described him and his wife as a fairly regular couple. Those who knew him weren’t aware of any psychiatric issues or history of serious drug use.
Escobedo-Hoyo grew up in Pachuca, Mexico, a city north of Mexico City and the capital of the Mexican state of Hidalgo. His father was a dentist and university professor and his mother a lawyer, according to a profile of him written in 2008 in a university magazine while he was studying international relations at Seton Hall, a private university in New Jersey.
He had studied in the United States at prep schools in Massachusetts and Vermont before he returned to Mexico where he received a law degree from Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo. It was from there, after he decided not to practise law, that he returned to the U.S. to study at Seton Hall.
“I always wanted to go into (international relations),” Escobedo-Hoyo said in the profile. “Law is much more straightforward,” he said. “Policy research, on the other hand, involves wading through pages of text, sort of trying to get to the point.”
The man who now stands accused killing Hickey said he went into international relations to curb violence in his home state, where the head of the state police was fatally shot by a group of hit men who, Escobedo-Hoyo said, were dispatched by local drug lords.
At the time, he said his graduate thesis at Seton Hall would explore how to prevent crime in Latin America.
“Maybe I can contribute a little bit to that solution,” he said. “Who knows?
Escobedo-Hoyo later returned to Mexico where he was the assistant dean of continuing education, from September 2011 to July 2013, at the same university he attended law school.
Escobedo-Hoyo then enrolled in Algonquin College’s two-year paralegal diploma program in Ottawa. In March 2014, the Algonquin mock trial team, of which he was a member, won a competition at Durham College, east of Toronto.
In May 2015, Escobedo-Hoyo worked as a paralegal in the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada on a one-month field placement. After completing the diploma program at Algonquin, he began work at Auger Hollingsworth.
Escobedo-Hoyo will remain in custody pending a bail hearing, which has yet to be scheduled.
Hickey’s family, meanwhile, continues to make plans for his funeral and thanks the community of Bells Corners for the outpouring of support that has made it possible to give him a proper farewell. The generosity has overwhelmed Hickey’s mother, Tracy Mellon, who has largely been dependent on social services since Hickey was born and the family identified that he had special needs. She said she is so grateful for everyone’s help.
Hickey’s wake is scheduled for Wednesday at McEvoy-Shields funeral home on Hunt Club Road from 2-4 p.m. and 7 -9 p.m. His funeral is scheduled for Thursday at St. Martin de Porres Church on Old Richmond Road at 10:30 a.m. Mellon said anyone is welcome to attend
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The community of Bells Corners has mobilized to help the family of 17-year-old Nick Hickey, who police believe was intentionally attacked on Wednesday night. Volunteers across the neighbourhood raised money to cover the costs of Hickey’s funeral, a man donated a suit for him to be buried in and an anonymous donor has covered the fare of a cross-country flight so Hickey’s older sister can come home to say goodbye to her brother.
The man who now stands accused in Hickey’s death — Guillermo Escobedo-Hoyo — is himself a member of that same community.
Hickey was walking in the area of Hammill Court and Seyton Drive Wednesday evening when he was run over. Hickey routinely took long walks through the neighbourhood to help combat his stress and anxiety.
Guillermo Escobedo-Hoyo, a paralegal at Auger Hollingsworth according to his LinkedIn profile, is charged with second-degree murder. LinkedIn photo
Police allege that Escobedo-Hoyo, who had already allegedly hit a light standard and another vehicle, spotted Hickey and deliberately ran him down with his car. Police believe Escobedo-Hoyo then stripped naked and began trying to smash the windows of an OC Transpo bus on Route 97 through Bells Corners.
The man then ran through the neighbourhood on foot, startling several neighbours, asking for guns.
Escobedo-Hoyo was arrested, naked, inside a Jeep.
Homicide detectives quickly took over the investigation and charged Escobedo-Hoyo with second-degree murder.
The sequence of events has shocked the community of Bells Corners and those who knew both Hickey and the man accused of killing him. What remains for many, are questions about the accused killer’s state of mind at the time of the alleged crimes.
At the time of his arrest, little was known about the man, who sobbed during his court appearances last week, complained of frostbite to his toes and begged to be released from custody so he could sleep in his own bed.
This newspaper has learned that the 37-year-old paralegal at Auger Hollingsworth, a personal injury and criminal defence law firm, is a Mexican national who is in Canada on a work visa. He is a married stepfather to two children, and his family home is around the corner from the spot where teddy bears and flowers now mark where Hickey took his last breath.
In a statement, Brenda Hollingsworth, founding partner of the firm at which Escobedo-Hoyo worked, said the firm had learned that one of its employees had been charged with a “serious offence.”
“We are very sorry for the family of Nick Hickey, for the family of the employee and for the rest of our staff,” she said.
Escobedo-Hoyo’s employment at the firm was listed on a LinkedIn profile at the time of his arrest. That profile, and all of its contents, as well as a profile belonging to the his wife — Heather Harris, an accounting clerk — were promptly taken down from the employment networking site.
Nicholas Hickey, 17, was mowed down by a driver around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday on Seyton Drive near Hammill Court in Bells Corners. Family photo.
Harris answered the door at her Bells Corners home Sunday afternoon and politely declined to comment on the charges against her husband. She also requested privacy.
Several people who know Escobedo-Hoyo, speaking on the condition their names not be published, described him and his wife as a fairly regular couple. Those who knew him weren’t aware of any psychiatric issues or history of serious drug use.
Escobedo-Hoyo grew up in Pachuca, Mexico, a city north of Mexico City and the capital of the Mexican state of Hidalgo. His father was a dentist and university professor and his mother a lawyer, according to a profile of him written in 2008 in a university magazine while he was studying international relations at Seton Hall, a private university in New Jersey.
He had studied in the United States at prep schools in Massachusetts and Vermont before he returned to Mexico where he received a law degree from Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo. It was from there, after he decided not to practise law, that he returned to the U.S. to study at Seton Hall.
“I always wanted to go into (international relations),” Escobedo-Hoyo said in the profile. “Law is much more straightforward,” he said. “Policy research, on the other hand, involves wading through pages of text, sort of trying to get to the point.”
The man who now stands accused killing Hickey said he went into international relations to curb violence in his home state, where the head of the state police was fatally shot by a group of hit men who, Escobedo-Hoyo said, were dispatched by local drug lords.
At the time, he said his graduate thesis at Seton Hall would explore how to prevent crime in Latin America.
“Maybe I can contribute a little bit to that solution,” he said. “Who knows?
Escobedo-Hoyo later returned to Mexico where he was the assistant dean of continuing education, from September 2011 to July 2013, at the same university he attended law school.
Escobedo-Hoyo then enrolled in Algonquin College’s two-year paralegal diploma program in Ottawa. In March 2014, the Algonquin mock trial team, of which he was a member, won a competition at Durham College, east of Toronto.
In May 2015, Escobedo-Hoyo worked as a paralegal in the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada on a one-month field placement. After completing the diploma program at Algonquin, he began work at Auger Hollingsworth.
Escobedo-Hoyo will remain in custody pending a bail hearing, which has yet to be scheduled.
Hickey’s family, meanwhile, continues to make plans for his funeral and thanks the community of Bells Corners for the outpouring of support that has made it possible to give him a proper farewell. The generosity has overwhelmed Hickey’s mother, Tracy Mellon, who has largely been dependent on social services since Hickey was born and the family identified that he had special needs. She said she is so grateful for everyone’s help.
Hickey’s wake is scheduled for Wednesday at McEvoy-Shields funeral home on Hunt Club Road from 2-4 p.m. and 7 -9 p.m. His funeral is scheduled for Thursday at St. Martin de Porres Church on Old Richmond Road at 10:30 a.m. Mellon said anyone is welcome to attend
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