In 2019, courtrooms in Calgary will see parents and grandparents on trial, accused of killing children, while 200 kilometres south of the city, a former Lethbridge couple once convicted of failing to take their dying toddler to a doctor will get a second chance in court.

The man accused of randomly attacking a father of three at a C-Train station will be tried for murder, while a once-popular Calgary chef will face the young woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her at a staff party.

And following a trial in late 2018, a judge will issue a verdict in the case of a Calgary Stampeder player who was killed outside a nightclub after celebrating a Saturday night win.

Below is a list of just some of the trials to keep an eye on in 2019.

Justice for Stampeder?

Stampeder Mylan Hicks, right, was fatally shot in 2016 while celebrating a win with about 20 teammates at a nightclub. Nelson Lugela, left, is accused of killing Hicks, who had been standing outside with friends after the bar closed. (Crime Stoppers/Calgary Stampeders)

Accused: Nelson Lugela.

Charges: 2nd-degree murder.

Victim: Mylan Hicks.

Trial: A verdict will come after closing arguments in January, which follow a trial in 2018.

Lawyers: Alain Hepner (defence), Gord Haight, Tom Spark (Crown).

Mylan Hicks was running away when he was fatally shot, according to witnesses who testified at his accused killer's trial.

Following the trial, which took place in late 2018, Justice Keith Yamauchi will hear closing arguments in January before he makes a finding on the guilt or innocence of Nelson Lugela, 21.

In September 2016, about 20 Stampeders were celebrating a win at the Marquee Beer Hall when a couple of the teammates got into a verbal fight with Lugela and his two friends. Hicks was nowhere near that argument.

After the bar closed, people gathered outside. Gunshots rang out before some of the players realized one of their own had been hit.

One of the men with Lugela that night testified that the accused killer admitted he'd shot the Stampeder and then dumped the gun in a recycling bin nearby.

After raising her boy in Detroit, Renee Hill said she had believed her 23-year-old son would be safe in Canada.

Fugitive on trial for murder

Nathan Paul Gervais, right, will finally go on trial for murder after he fled the country just weeks before his trial was to begin. Gervais was arrested in Vietnam in 2018 and flown back to Calgary. He is accused in the 2013 swarming death of Lukas Strasser-Hird, 18. (Facebook/Calgary Police Service)

Accused: Nathan Gervais.

Charges: 1st-degree murder.

Victim: Lukas Strasser-Hird.

Trial: Jan. 14, 2019.

Lawyers: Alain Hepner (defence), Ken McCaffrey (Crown).

Almost six years after Lukas Strasser-Hird was killed, Nathan Gervais will finally sit in a prisoner's box at the Calgary Courts Centre to face the prosecution's evidence against him. He fled the country just weeks before his original trial was to begin.

Gervais is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Lukas Strasser-Hird, 18, who died after being swarmed, beaten and stabbed by a group of young men in an alley near Second Street and 10th Avenue S.W.

In April 2016, less than two weeks before his trial, Gervais left Canada and was on the lam for more than a year before he was arrested in Vietnam and flown back to Calgary in February 2018.

The original trial went ahead for four others accused in the killing. Frans Cabrera and Assmar Shlah were found guilty of second-degree murder, while Joch Pouk was found guilty of manslaughter. Jordan Liao, was acquitted.

Chef accused of sex assault

Chef Michael Noble is accused of sexually assaulting an employee at a staff party in January 2018. (Anstice Communications)

Accused: Michael Noble.

Charges: Sexual assault.

Victim: Publication ban protects complainant's identity.

Trial: March 11, 2019.

Lawyers: Jennifer Ruttan (defence), Vicki Faulkner (Crown).

Well-known Calgary chef Michael Noble is accused of sexually assaulting a 21-year-old woman at a staff party in January 2018.

It's alleged he cornered the woman — who was one of his employees — in a bathroom stall and assaulted her.

Defence lawyer Jennifer Ruttan has said her client denies all allegations and will "rigorously defend his innocence."

The woman accusing Noble had filed a restraining order, which has since been dropped. In the application for the order, the young woman detailed her version of the incident in which she said she was groped and digitally penetrated.

Noble is the owner of award-winning restaurants The Nash in Inglewood and Notable in Montgomery.

Father of 3 killed in random C-Train attack

Keeton Michel Gagnon is charged with second-degree murder in the random stabbing death of Nicolas Nwonye, a father of three who had just moved his family to Canada from Nigeria for a better life. (David Bell/CBC)

Accused: Keeton Michel Gagnon.

Charges: 2nd-degree murder.

Victim: Nicolas Nwonye.

Trial: April 29, 2019.

Lawyers: Gloria Froese (defence), Susan Pepper, Will Tran (Crown).

When he was randomly and fatally stabbed on a C-train platform in June 2017, Nicolas Nwonye had been in Canada for only a year and a half and was working two jobs to support his family.

Nwonye, 46, was a father of three and had left his job as an engineer in Nigeria to bring his family to Canada. He was working two jobs to support his family while taking nursing courses at Bow Valley College.

Keeton Michel Gagnon is charged with second-degree murder.

Gagnon has 20-year criminal history with police in British Columbia and has displayed "a willingness to be violent," according to the Parole Board of Canada, which twice revoked the accused killer's parole.

Police have said the C-Train stabbing was unprovoked and random.

2nd trial for controversial parents

David Stephan and his wife Collet Stephan were convicted of failing to provide the necessaries of life for their son Ezekiel, who died in March 2012. The Supreme Court overturned the conviction last summer and the couple will be retried in June. (CBC/Facebook)

Accused: David and Collet Stephan.

Charges: Failing to provide the necessaries of life.

Victim: Ezekiel Stephan.

Trial: June 3, 2019.

Lawyers: Britta Kristensen (Crown).

David and Collet Stephan will go on trial a second time, accused of failing to take their dying toddler to a doctor, treating him instead with natural remedies.

In 2016, a Lethbridge jury found the Stephans guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of life. Then, last summer, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned the couple's convictions, finding the trial judge's instructions to jurors was too confusing.

In 2012, the Stephans treated their sick 19-month-old son Ezekiel with natural remedies and homemade smoothies containing hot pepper, ginger root, horseradish and onion, instead of seeking medical help.

Even when Ezekiel's body was too stiff to sit in a car seat, they put him on a mattress in the family van and drove to their local naturopathic clinic in Lethbridge to pick up herbal supplements. The couple called 911 only after the boy stopped breathing. He died in hospital of meningitis.

The Stephans will be in court in January, asking the provincial government to repay the $1 million they say they've spent on legal costs. The Stephans also want the government to put another $3 million aside for their retrial defence. Currently, they do not have lawyers.

Grandparents on trial

Carolina and Allan Perdomo are accused of beating their five-year-old grandson to death just months after the boy's Mexican mother sent him to Canada to live with them, hoping he would have a better life here. (Calgary Police Service)

Accused: Allan and and Carolina Perdomo.

Charges: Manslaughter.

Victim: Emilio Perdomo.

Trial: June 3, 2019.

Lawyers: Tim Foster (Carolina), Darren Mahoney (Allan), Vicki Faulkner, Jayme Williams (Crown).

Just months before he died from brutal injuries, five-year-old Emilio Perdomo had been sent to Calgary from Mexico by his mother, who hoped his grandparents would be able to provide a better life.

In June, Allan and and Carolina Perdomo will go on trial on charges of manslaughter, accused of beating their grandson to death.

In July 2015, Emilio was brought to hospital unresponsive and suffering seizures. He had a brain bleed, broken arm and bruises on his arms, face, legs, back, chest, stomach, knuckles and genitals. Emilio died in hospital from a severe head injury one week after he was admitted.

Allan and Carolina Perdomo told police the child had injured himself in several accidents.

The couple was charged a year after Emilio died. Their trial was originally supposed to take place in 2018 but was delayed by a preliminary inquiry and pre-trial applications.

Girl, 4, beaten to death

Oluwatosin Oluwafemi is accused of fatally beating his four-year-old daughter, Olive Rebekah Oluwafemi. The girl died in December 2014. Her father will go on trial on a charge of second-degree murder. (Global Calgary/Calgary Police Service)

Accused: Oluwatosin Oluwafemi.

Charges: 2nd-degree murder.

Victim: Olive Oluwafemi.

Trial: June 17, 2019.

Lawyers: Rebecca Snukal (defence), Susan Pepper, Melissa Bond (Crown).

One year after four-year-old Olive Rebekah Oluwafemi died, her father was charged with second-degree murder.

Olive suffered injuries for weeks leading up to her death in December 2014, according to police.

Responding to reports of a child in distress, paramedics found Olive in her home badly injured, in cardiac arrest and not breathing. She died in hospital shortly after arriving.

Oluwatosin Oluwafemi told police his daughter had fallen down the stairs, which investigators said was not consistent with the child's injuries.

Olive's mother and father were both unco-operative with investigators, according to police.

4 dead, 2 accused

Left to right: Glynnis Fox, Cody Pfeiffer and Tiffany Ear were found dead on July 10, 2017, in a burned-out car in Sage Hill. The body of Hanock Afowerk, right, was discovered days later west of Calgary. Afowerk is believed to have been the target. (Facebook/Megan Snell/Calgary Police Service)

Accused: Tewodros Mutugeta Kebede & Yu Chieh (Diana) Liao.

Charges: 1st-degree murder & 3x accessory after the fact to murder.

Victim: Hanock Afowerk, Cody Pfeiffer, Tiffany Ear, Glynnis Fox.

Trial: Oct. 28, 2019.

Lawyers: Susan Karpa (Liao), Janis Patel (Kebede), Brian Holtby (Crown).

In May 2017, four people were found dead in the Calgary area over two days: three inside a burned-out car belonging to the fourth victim, whose remains were discovered just outside city limits.

Tewodros Mutugeta Kebede and Yu Chieh (Diana) Liao will go on trial in October, accused of murdering Hanock Afowerk, 26. They also face three charges each of accessory after the fact in the slayings of Cody Pfeiffer, 25, and sisters Tiffany Ear, 39, and Glynnis Fox, 36.

Pfeiffer, Ear and Fox were discovered in a burned-out car in Calgary. Two days later, Afowerk's remains were found near a road west of the city.

Initially, police said they believed the trio in the vehicle were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Investigators have since backtracked and now believe the victims and accused were all known to each other and that the trio was caught up in a targeted attack on Afowerk.​

Homicide charges still have not been laid in connection with the three victims found in the car, which belonged to Afowerk.