RCMP confirm East Selkirk triple shooting a double murder-suicide

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RCMP confirmed Friday the triple shooting Monday in East Selkirk was a double murder-suicide.

A short statement said the couple who lived in the East Selkirk home where the bodies were found outside were homicide victims. The husband was 43, the wife, 41, RCMP said.

The third person, a man identified as 49 from Winnipeg, died of a “self inflicted firearm injury,” RCMP said.

RCMP said they have closed the investigation and are withholding the names of the deceased out of respect for their families.

However, local sources identified the victims as a married couple, Nicole Rach-Gregoire and James Gregoire, as well as Bill Wozney, the woman’s former employer.

The shooting has been the subject of intense speculation in Selkirk, with multiple sources telling the Free Press money may have triggered the deadly violence on the quiet country road.

All were found Monday night in the couple’s yard at 15 Cooks Cove, which is at the end of a gravel road that only has five houses.

Within a day or two, word surfaced that Rach-Gregoire had recently been fired by Wozney, her employer at Physiotherapy on the Red in Selkirk.

Sources said Wozney was stressed over irregularities in health insurance claims from his business.

Several sources told the Free Press Rach-Gregoire had been the office manager at the physiotherapy clinic and was suspected in the irregularities, which allegedly involved false invoices for non-existent clients. One source said the amount was in the six figures.

Another source said Rach-Gregoire was under investigation. An RCMP spokeswoman said the woman found dead in the front yard of the couple’s home “has not been arrested or charged by RCMP.” The Mounties never comment on the status of investigations.

None of the three deceased had any outstanding criminal charges or convictions.

A longtime client of Wozney said the physiotherapist was worried because “he had no proof she’d actually done anything other than the circumstantial evidence that she had apparently thrown all their computers in the river, basically.”

Jason Thompson, the other physiotherapist at the clinic, declined an interview request by the Winnipeg Free Press.