RCMP puts spotlight on unsolved murder from 2024

Thompson RCMP is putting a renewed public focus on an unsolved murder from 2024.

Billboards and posters showing the face of homicide victim Steven Seela were plastered all over the community earlier this week, RCMP said in a news release Thursday.

While the investigation never stopped, Mounties say they need more information to push it forward.

Police believe people in Thompson have information about the death and hope the renewed focus brings more information to light. 

The new posters and billboards are adorned with a quote from Seela’s mother, Denise Redhead, in which she said: “the silence is killing us.” The text alongside a photo of her smiling son. 

Seela was last seen by loved ones on Nov. 24, 2024 and was reported missing by his mother on Nov. 27. One day later, he was found shot inside of a trailer on Pipe Road in the Thompson Trailer Courts.

RCMP major crimes took over the investigation and say what they learned is that on Nov. 24, Seela left a residence in Thompson and travelled across the city, arriving at the Trailer Courts around 2:30 p.m.

Cpl. Gennifer Furkalo said there have been “bread crumbs of information” provided to the RCMP and evidence has been collected, but they’re looking for people in the Trailer Courts who have information to come forward and said any information is valuable.

“No little bit of information is necessarily too small,” said Furkalo. “You don’t know what we don’t know and you might have information that blows this wide open.”

RCMP hopes information brought forward because of the campaign helps bring resolution to the case, which has been under investigation for approximately 16 months.

“Murder is everyone’s problem. Everyone plays a role in trying to get to the bottom of this,” she said.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the RCMP tipline at 1-431-489-8106.