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Port Alberni mayor contacts Gillam mayor as hunt for B.C. fugitives drags on

Alberni council throws support behind RCMP in quest to find Kam McLeod, Bryer Schmegelsky
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Port Alberni Mayor Sharie Minions. (AV NEWS FILE PHOTO)

The mayor of Port Alberni has spoken to the mayor in the small town in Manitoba at the centre of a large-scale search for two murder suspects who live in her community.

Sharie Minions said she reached out to Dwayne Forman, the mayor in the northern town of Gillam, to offer her support from one rural leader to another.

91裸聊视频淭heir community is struggling with the same thing,91裸聊视频 Minions told Black Press Media.

She said both places have been inundated with news media and international attention as the hunt for Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky, both from Port Alberni, drags on.

The last confirmed sighting of the two men was on July 22 in Gillam, about 275 kilometres from Churchill.

They are suspects in the double homicide of a young couple near Liard Hot Springs the week before, and have been formally charged with second-degree murder in the death of a Vancouver man whose body was found at highway pullout near Dease Lake, not far from the young men91裸聊视频檚 burned-out truck.

As of Friday afternoon, RCMP have begun canvassing door to door in the area around Gillam and nearby Fox Lake Cree Nation, adding McLeod and Schmegelsky may have already left the area, as they could have changed their appearance and gotten help from someone who did not recognize them.

Police were at both families91裸聊视频 homes on Thursday night, removing items from the home where Schmegelsky lived with his grandmother.

91裸聊视频淧ort Alberni is a tight-knit community with a big heart, and this news is weighing heavily on us,91裸聊视频 Minions said. 91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 impossible to imagine the heartache the families are going through, and our community wants to help in whatever way we can.91裸聊视频



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