OPP continue to investigate possible sighting of B.C. suspects in Kapuskasing
Posted July 31, 2019 8:58 pm.
Last Updated August 1, 2019 1:57 pm.
Ontario provincial police continue to investigate a possible sighting in the northeastern community of Kapuskasing of two teenagers suspected in the deaths of three people in northern B.C.
On Wednesday, police said someone reported seeing two men who looked similar to Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod.
OPP Const. Michelle Coulombe said a suspicious vehicle was reported driving through a construction zone Wednesday morning. Officers haven’t been able to track it down yet.
“They are still following the leads and the officers out on patrol today will be keeping an eye out for the car that fits the description of the one that supposedly stopped in the construction zone yesterday,” Bob McIntyre, a reporter at Moose FM in the Kapuskasing, Cochrane and Timmins area, told 680 NEWS.
“From the OPP I’m hearing it’s not likely [them], but they are following up every lead and taking every tip seriously. People in Kapuskasing are understandably very much on edge because of the reports from yesterday that frankly, social media blew up.”
The report came as RCMP announced they are scaling back their search for the pair in the northern Manitoba community of Gillam.
The Mounties said they have searched more than 1,100-hundred square kilometres of wilderness in northern Manitoba, canvassed every home and searched every abandoned building in the area where the two were last seen a week ago.
Gillam and Kapuskasing are about 2,300 kilometres apart and there is no direct route.
