Mom pleads for tips in son’s slaying

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This article was published 26/08/2025 (214 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

The mother of a man slain in Lake Manitoba First Nation two years ago is again pleading for tips in solving the homicide.

Lyndon McIvor, 25, went missing after a night out with friends on Aug. 26, 2023. HIs body was found in a wooded area on Aug. 31.

“It’s hard. It happened in our community. Everyone knows each other, and when something happens, it affects all of us,” the victim’s mother, Cheryl Maytwayashing, said in an RCMP news release Tuesday.

“If it’s your child, your grandchild, niece, nephew, ask them to talk because it’s affecting a lot of people. We don’t want this to happen to another family. People do know what happened.”

Barry Leslie Swan was arrested on Sept. 2, 2023, for McIvor’s killing, and later charged with second-degree murder. Court records show the charge against Swan, who was 36 at the time of his arrest, was stayed in Ashern provincial court on Sept. 11, 2024.

RCMP, who released a video of Maytwayashing speaking about her son and the case, asked anyone with information about the killing to call the major crime services tips line at 431-489-8110.