Accused in aiding of murder suspects

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A man accused of helping three suspects try to avoid arrest for the killing of a Winnipeg college student has been ordered to stand trial.

John Dacamara, 37, was arrested last year on the rarely used charge of accessory after the fact to murder. His preliminary hearing was set for this week but ended when he consented to having his case heard in Court of Queen’s Bench. No dates have been set.

Minh Hong Huynh, 24, was attacked by several men outside Club Desire at 441 Main St. in April 2006. An autopsy found Huynh was stabbed four times — three times in his chest and once to his left cheek and that the cause of death was one of the stab wounds to his chest, which severed a vein.

Police have charged Glen Sherman Monkman, Norris Ponce and Carlos Tavares with first-degree murder. They remain before the courts. Dacamara is accused of having knowledge of the violent attack and “allowing the accused to escape” from the crime scene, according to court documents.

It’s believed Huynh was at Club Desire earlier in the evening and had been asked by staff to leave following a dispute with another man inside the bar. The attack on Huynh was witnessed by more than a dozen people, who told police the suspects left the scene quickly in an SUV. Huynh’s sister, Thanh, told the Free Press her brother was a business administration student at Red River College and talked about one day opening his own restaurant. She said he was not involved in gangs or drugs.

One person who witnessed the aftermath of the attack was film producer Andrew Paquin, the brother of Oscar-winning actress Anna Paquin. The siblings were in Winnipeg at the time working on the film Blue State. Andrew had been on his way to Club Desire from a late-night location shoot on Ruby Street in Wolseley with an out-of-town investor, when he saw a black SUV speeding away from the wounded Huynh.

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