Calgary criminal implicated in 2020 murder now accused of committing manslaughter while on bail
Troy Lemke, 40, faces 9 new charges stemming from 2024 home invasion
A Calgary criminal who was handed a six-year prison sentence last week for firearms and drug offences is now facing a manslaughter charge, accused of killing a man while on bail.
Troy Lemke, 40, is now the second person charged in the January 2024 home-invasion killing of John Wayne Davis, 53.
Lemke faces nine charges including manslaughter, aggravated assault, unlawful confinement, break and enter and robbery.
He made his first court appearance Wednesday before a justice of the peace in Calgary.
"You have been arrested on a warrant that alleges a series of criminal offences," Justice of the Peace (JP) Mathieu St. Germain told Lemke.
Earlier this month, Jarvais Eisnor, 44, was charged with the same offences in relation to Davis' death.
On Jan. 4, 2024, just after 9 a.m., police were called to a home on Braden Crescent northwest for reports of a home invasion.
When officers arrived, Davis was dead and two others were injured inside the home.
Money, jewelry, cellphones stolen
Court documents show that Lemke is accused of stealing money, cellphones and jewelry from the victims.
Lemke has a criminal history including convictions for accessory after the fact to murder and more recently, drug and weapons offences.
Last week, Lemke was handed a six-year sentence after he was convicted of fentanyl, firearms and possession of stolen property offences as well as breaches.
He was arrested for those offences on May 30, 2023.
Lemke released on bail
Court records show Lemke was released on bail twice after that arrest, including for a period between Oct. 11, 2023 to Jan. 5, 2024.
Davis was killed on Jan. 4, 2024, one day before Lemke was re-arrested.
In 2020, Lemke and two others were charged with first-degree murder in the death of Christian Navos, 32, who was shot seven times at close range while sitting in the driver's seat of his car.
Police connected the homicide to a drug-related dispute.
All three offenders pleaded guilty to lesser offences.
Getaway driver
Joseph Chlala, 23, pleaded guilty to manslaughter with a firearm and was handed an eight-year sentence last October.
A 15-year old boy — who can't be named because he was a youth at the time of the homicide — admitted to being the shooter and received a seven-year sentence, the maximum sentence for a youth convicted of second-degree murder.
Lemke, who admitted to his role as the getaway driver, pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of accessory after the fact to murder and was handed a time-served, three-year sentence in November 2022.
He was also placed on two years' probation, meaning he was on court-ordered conditions at the time of the drugs and weapons offences and at the time of the homicide.
Lemke, who was most recently represented by defence lawyer Matthew Walton, did not have a lawyer for his JP appearance.
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