Man charged in 2024 Thompson homicide

A man from Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation has been charged in a 2024 slaying in Thompson.

A 32-year-old man who had been badly assaulted on May 10, 2o24 in a parking lot in Thompson died in hospital just over a week later.

RCMP initially charged a man in his 50s with aggravated assault, but those charges were stayed last year after investigators later determined that man wasn’t involved.

Investigators later identified 26-year-old Jonah Yetman as a suspect and sent an investigative package to Crown prosecutors, who recently authorized a manslaughter charge against him.

He was arrested on Nov. 30 and remanded into custody.

Yetman has one criminal conviction. He pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm in Thompson provincial court in 2018 and was given a year of probation, court records show.