No common feature among Edmonton's 2017 homicides, police say

No one factor accounts for all of the 45 homicides in Edmonton in 2017. There are parents who face charges in their death of their little ones and seniors believed to have been randomly killed by strangers. 
Some victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Others were targeted. There were deaths by stabbing, shooting, beating, drugs, strangulation and fire. Eight were women; the rest were men.
The youngest victim was an 11-day old girl, who died from methamphetamine poisoning. She wa