Girl, 16, slain in Easterville; third area homicide in less than two months
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Police are investigating after a 16-year-old girl was found slain in an open area in Easterville early Friday.
Chemawawin RCMP were called just after 2 a.m. and found the teen, who had suffered “obvious injuries,” police said in a news release.
RCMP have arrested a male, who remains in custody. Police did not release his age and he has not been charged.
Easterville is about 460 km northwest of Winnipeg, on the south shore of Cedar Lake, next to Chemawawin Cree Nation. The slaying is the third in the remote communities in less than two months.
A 14-year-old girl was slain in Chemawawin on May 13. A 19-year-old, Kingsley Lachose, is charged with second-degree murder.
He had been having an illegal relationship with the teen, court records show, and defied court orders barring him from contacting her at least twice prior to her death.
Lachose was charged with sexual interference July 22, 2023, after RCMP officers allegedly caught him sleeping in bed with the girl, then 13, when they went to arrest him at a home on unrelated warrants. Officers later witnessed the two kissing.
The charge remains before the court. Lachose was granted bail in The Pas in January on the condition he stay away from the 14-year-old, despite opposition from the Crown prosecutor on the case.
A 32-year-old woman was slain in Easterville on May 4. The victim’s cousin, a 35-year-old woman, was seriously injured. Two girls, one 13 years old and the other 14, were charged with second-degree murder.
Chemawawin Chief Clarence Easter could not be reached Friday, but following the May 4 slaying, he expressed shock and concern over the bloodshed in an interview with the Free Press.
After the May 13 killing, the First Nation put out a community notice declaring a crisis situation over violence and crime.
The notice said machetes, knives, bear spray and guns are prohibited in the community and that anyone “who causes harm with any of the weapons mentioned will be subject to banishment.”
The notice also mentioned a curfew for 18-year-old residents and another curfew for anyone 17 or younger. Anyone who refuses to shut down a known house party will be subject to removal from the home, said the May notice.
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