B.C.'s prosecution service has approved two criminal charges against 25-year-old Coquitlam resident Nicholas Bellemare, 25, who is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 3.
B.C. Prosecution Service approves 2 charges against 25-year-old Coquitlam resident Nicholas BellemareBouqets of flowers and a photo of RCMP Const. Rick O'Brien are pictured on a growing makeshift memorial outside the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment in Maple Ridge, B.C., on Saturday.
B.C.'s prosecution service has approved two criminal charges against 25-year-old man Nicholas Bellemare in the slaying of an RCMP officer on Friday. Bellemare faces a first-degree murder charge, as well as a second count of attempted murder with a firearm. Ridge Meadows RCMP Const. Rick O'Brien was shot dead while executing a search warrant on Friday around 10 a.m. in Coquitlam, B.C., a city of 150,000 about 25 kilometres east of Vancouver.
In a statement Saturday afternoon, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team revealed O'Brien and two other officers were at the time executing a warrant "in relation to a drug investigation" originating in Maple Ridge, B.C.
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