In a quickly evolving investigation into three deaths — two homicides — in British Columbia, RCMP members with the Yorkton, Sask. detachment are now saying they pulled over a suspected vehicle, but it wasn’t occupied by the wanted men connected to the B.C. deaths.
Just before 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Mounties in the city updated the case with the new information.
They said they had originally received multiple reports that the two suspects, Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, were spotted driving a white, four-door vehicle down Yorkton’s Broadway Avenue.
When police officers pulled over the vehicle, they found the alleged criminals were not inside.
McLeod and Schmegelsky were spotted in Meadow Lake, Sask. on Sunday, two days after their truck was found B.C. Later Tuesday, Mounties said the pair may have been in Manitoba after a reported sighting in the northern town of Gillam, which lies northeast of Thompson, toward Hudson Bay.
The reported Yorkton sightings said the white car apparently had a Manitoba licence plate.
— With files from the Canadian Press