RCMP charge Selkirk man with murder in beating death
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RCMP have arrested a 33-year-old man in connection with the beating death of an elderly Selkirk man.
Ralph Larson died Monday, a day after he was beaten in his quiet one-storey home after a home invasion.
RCMP have charged Ryan Otte of Selkirk with second degree murder. Police say Otte and Larson knew one another, and Otte is in police custody.
On Sunday morning, one of Larson’s neighbours noticed a door ajar on the former truant officer’s bungalow.
Carolyn Seward said she and her 14-year-old son, Jonathan Cook, found Larson lying on his bed and bleeding from his face. The door had been kicked in and they presumed he’d been like that for hours.
“I (saw) the smeared blood on his pant leg but it didn’t look like blood from his leg, and then I looked at his face, and there was blood all over his mouth,” said Seward. Seward and her children delivered meals to Larson on special occasions, though he regularly hired a range of neighbourhood kids to do chores around his property for petty cash.