Ahmad Sabbagh
Calgary, AB / Oct. 2, 1976
Ahmad Sabbagh, 23, was a native of Syria. He had been in Canada about a year and in Calgary for less than ten months.
On the night of October 2/3, 1976 Sabbagh was dispatched to an address on Whitestone Way where he picked up two males aged 19 and 16. His last message to the dispatcher indicated that he was going to the airport.
Near the corner of McKnight Boulevard and 52nd Street N.E. the killers robbed Sabbagh and shot him in the head with a .22 gun. He was found there early Saturday morning, Oct. 3.
Police used the Whitestone Way address to track the killers to Saskatoon where the parents of one of them lived. Both were charged with non-capital murder.
Sabbagh was thought to be the first Calgary driver murdered on duty since the death of Ernest Midwinter.
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