4:45 p.m. update on today's murder in Wikwemikong

OPP NEWS RELEASE

********************** Murder charge laid in Wilwemikong homicide

(Wikwemikong, Ont.) – In the early morning hours of Tuesday May 2 members of the Wikwemikong Tribal Police were called to a disturbance at 37 Daawema Road Wikwemikong, Ontario.

Upon arrival at the scene it was found that an adult male was a victim of a stab wound.

He was rushed to the Manitoulin Health Centre in Little Current where we he was pronounced dead on arrival.

The deceased male has been identified as Cory Allen Roy, age 28, of the Wikwemikong First Nation.

Through investigation it was learned that a male youth had fled the scene.

Members of the Ontario Provincial Police Emergency Response Team along with the canine unit were called in to assist in locating the youth.

At daybreak a 16-year-old male youth was located in another residence in Wikwemikong and surrendered peacefully to police and was taken into custody.

The youth who cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act has been charged with one count of first-degree murder.

He was taken to the Wikwemikong Criminal Court today where he was remanded into custody by a Provincial Court judge to appear at the next sitting of Superior Court on Manitoulin on Wednesday May 17.

The investigation is still ongoing with the assistance of the Northeast Region OPP Crime unit and the OPP Forensic Identification Unit from Sault Ste. Marie.

The joint investigation is being conducted with the Wikwemikong Tribal Police under the direction of Detective Inspector Tim Millar of the Criminal Investigation Branch of the OPP.

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