Canada: RCMP start searching York Landing for two B.C. homicide suspects
Manitoba, Jul 29 (IBNS): Responding to a tip of sighting of the two B.C. fugitives Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and Kam McLeod, 19, RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) officers have started searching York Landing, Manitoba, media reports said.
The small community of York Landing, accessible only by ferry or aircraft in the summer months, is nearly 1,000 kilometers north of Winnipeg and about 90 kilometers by air southwest of Gillam, Man., where RCMP have been focusing their efforts with assistance from the Canadian military.
The two Port Alberni, B.C. homicide suspects, in the double homicide of Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese, are charged with second-degree murder in the death of the University of British Columbia lecturer Leonard Dyck.
They had been on the run for nearly a week.
A member of Winnipeg's Bear Clan patrol group had seen them around 4:15 p.m. CT after spotting what he believed to be the men near the landfill and water-treatment plant in York Landing.
Travis Bighetty was reported to tell CBC News that he and his partner spotted two "tall, slender individuals" moving very quickly.
"They fit the description of what was given in the RCMP report," Bighetty said. "It didn't click right away, it took a few moments."
He couldn't tell what the two figures were up to. "[I] kind of figured they were scavenging or something."
A possible sighting of 2 B-C homicide suspects has moved the focus of the search for Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelski from Gillam to York Landing. @angjohnston @cameronmaclean https://t.co/YHudKEHDCN pic.twitter.com/eQjtwyUobS
— Heather Wells (@HeatherWellsCBC) July 29, 2019
"Police continue to hunt for two Canadian murder suspects in York Landing" https://t.co/ttameDVNqR
— Julie Jennings (@juliewatson1234) July 29, 2019
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
Image: Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod/Twitter
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