Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 23 No. 45 Friday, November 9, 2012
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# Police tape marked off the area where Tyler Myers’ body was found on Nov. 21, 2008. He died from a single gunshot wound. A 20-year-old man and 21-year-old woman have now been charged with first-degree murder.
Pair arrested for Tyler Myers murder By Martha Wickett MARKET NEWS STAFF
Four years to the month he was killed, police have charged two people in the murder of 22-year-old Tyler Myers of Salmon Arm. Myers died of a gunshot wound on the evening of Nov. 21, 2008, his body discovered by a passerby about 7:30 p.m. on a trail on the grounds of Bastion Elementary School.
On Monday of this week, police arrested a 20-yearold man and a 21-year-old woman, both who were under 18 years at the time of the murder so can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Both are residents of Salmon Arm and both have been charged with first-degree murder. The pair appeared briefly in Salmon Arm Court on Tuesday where the charges
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were read out. They were ordered to be held in custody until their next joint court appearance on Nov. 20. The parents of the accused man and the mother of the accused woman were also present in the courtroom. At a news conference at the Salmon Arm RCMP detachment Tuesday afternoon, Insp. Gary Shinkaruk of the RCMP’s E Division Major Crime Section said
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while the woman was arrested in a public setting in Vernon – both without incident. Both were known to the deceased, he said. “We talked to the Myers family – certainly it was a very emotional time for them as we can all imagine... We told them who they were, they were aware
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