RCMP arrest third suspect in Bloodvein First Nation homicide

APTN National News
The RCMP have arrested a third suspect in the homicide of a 52-year-old Bloodvein First Nation man last February in northern Manitoba.

Police said they arrested a boy, 17, in Selkirk Oct. 9.

He’s been charged with second-degree murder.

The arrest quickly followed a second arrest on Oct. 7 when a boy, 16, from Winnipeg was apprehended and also charged with second-degree murder.

That brings the total number of suspects to three after the initial arrest of a boy, 17, Feb. 11 from Bloodvein First Nation.

That youth was also charged in a separate homicide of a 31-year-old man also from Bloodvein.

Police initially responded to a house fire in Bloodvein Feb. 8 and when the fire was put out the remains of an adult man were found.

No further arrests are expected.

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