Manslaughter charge laid in death of Halifax pedestrian in January

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 06, 2025 8:57 PM EST | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

A 32-year-old antheral has been charged with manslaughter successful the January decease of a pistillate who was struck by a conveyance astatine a Halifax intersection.

The Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service confirmed the caller complaint against Deepak Sharma connected Thursday.

Sharma is connected location apprehension staying astatine an code successful Moncton, N.B., with radical who stock his surname.

He is scheduled to appear in Halifax provincial tribunal connected April 4 to participate a plea and elite a tribunal for trial.

Sharma was antecedently charged with operating a conveyance causing death, operating a conveyance portion impaired causing death, leaving the country of an mishap and leaving the country of an mishap causing death, according to a Halifax Regional Police quality merchandise successful January.

Police said they were called to the country adjacent the country of Jubilee Road and Robie Street astir 5:47 p.m. connected Monday, Jan. 27.

At the time, constabulary said a man's vehicle had crashed into different conveyance connected Jubilee Road. He past allegedly tried to fly and deed 21-year-old Alexandria Wortman successful a crosswalk earlier striking 2 parked vehicles.

She was taken to infirmary wherever she aboriginal died.

Under the presumption of his location arrest, Sharma is not allowed to consume or person intoxicant oregon controlled substances unless prescribed by a doctor. He has to stay astatine the location successful Moncton and is lone allowed to permission for aesculapian emergencies involving himself oregon a subordinate of the household. He is besides not allowed to run a centrifugal vehicle.