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Homicide

UPDATE: Name of suspect released in Cherry Avenue homicide; residents react

KAMLOOPS - Police have now filed murder charges against a resident of the 435 Cherry Avenue apartment building after police discovered the body of a 26-year-old woman Tuesday afternoon. Christopher Frank Butler, 41, was charged with second-degree murder around 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. The victim was Deanne Genevieve Wheeler, 26, according to police.  Const. Jason...

UPDATE: Kamloops police investigate homicide after woman killed in apartment

KAMLOOPS - RCMP officers have a man in custody after finding a dead woman in an apartment on the North Shore's Cherry Avenue around 2 p.m. today, Dec. 30.  But after reporting that a suspect was "arrested for murder," RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Cheryl Bush now says he has "been taken into custody in relation to...

Renewed call for information in decade old homicide case

KAMLOOPS - The body of Shana Labatte was discovered in the Mission Flats area in 2004 and RCMP are again asking for help from the public in solving the decade old case. Labatte’s body was discovered near a walking trail March 23, 2004 and RCMP were quick to say the 31-year-old had been murdered. At...

UPDATE: Killing spouse nets less than five years in jail

"I HAVE TO LIVE WITH WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT AND NOT REMEMBERING HURTS EVEN MORE" KAMLOOPS - A local man was sentenced to less than five years in jail—two years before he is out prison—after admitting he must have killed his common-law wife. Gerald Peters, 50, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2012 stabbing of...