Six more inmates now charged in slaying

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RCMP have charged six more men with second-degree murder in the killing of an inmate at Stony Mountain Institution this summer.

Police said Thursday that Daniel Chatkana, 25, Randal Hastings, 31, Keewatin Lachose, 24, Brennan MacDonald, 22, Wallace Sinclair, 20, and Jeremiah Zglobicki, 22, have now been charged.

RCMP said two inmates were still in the process of being brought back to Manitoba on Thursday.

“They were all located at various institutions across the country,” RCMP Sgt. Paul Manaigre said, adding that RCMP had to re-arrest all six inmates.

Police announced on July 25 that Nukota Peters, 22, was facing the same charge in connection with the July 22 slaying. A 37-year-old inmate was found injured that night and later died in hospital.

Dean Young was serving a sentence of nearly nine years for multiple charges, including aggravated assault and break-and-enter. He had been in prison since May 2022.

One of the accused, Zglobicki, was already serving a life sentence for the unprovoked slaying of 60-year-old Owen Pruden in August 2021.

Pruden and another man, 23-year-old Justin McKay, had gotten into an altercation outside the Salvation Army’s Booth Centre, where Pruden had been staying.

Zglobicki had been watching the fight when Pruden grabbed a garden-shear blade from McKay. Zglobicki then grabbed the item from Pruden, stabbing him three times in the chest before fleeing.

Chatkana and Peters are at Stony Mountain, serving eight-year and four-year sentences, respectively, for aggravated assault.

Lachose is serving time for robbery, while MacDonald is serving time for assault. Court records are unclear about what Hastings and Sinclair are serving their respective sentences for.

RCMP continue to investigate the homicide.

scott.billeck@freepress.mb.ca