An investigation into three murders in the South Okanagan has also yielded a charge from a targeted shooting in Prince George.
B.C. RCMP said Monday that Shahram Tokhy, 21, of Coquitlam has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder in connection with an early-morning May 25, 2021 incident in the 5300 block of Cook Crescent in the Hart.
The charge was approved as part of a wider investigation that has also led to counts of first-degree murder against two Vancouver men stemming from a series of homicides in the South Okanagan at about the same time.
Earlier in May 2021, the bodies of two Kamloops men, Erick Fryer, 29, and Carlos Fryer, 31, were found in a remote area near Naramata. The discoveries prompted an investigation that led to police attending a home in the community, about 15 kilometres north of Penticton, where they found the body of Kathleen Richardson, 57, on June 9, 2021.
Police said Monday that Jalen Falk, 23, and Ekene Anigbo, 23, have been charged with first-degree murder of Richardson and allege that the deaths of the Fyers and Richardson and the incident in Prince George are connected
Police said a gun later linked to the Tokhy matter was recovered later the same day as the Prince George incident, when RCMP were called to a single-vehicle rollover on Highway 97 at 10 Mile Lake, north of Quesnel.
A handgun and a rifle, both loaded, were found in a ditch behind the scene, and three more guns were seized following a search of an associated vehicle, police said.
According to a report by the Vancouver Sun's Kim Bolan, Anthony Graham was the target of the gun play in Prince George.
Graham was uninjured, but he remains a fugitive after being charged along with Richardson’s son, Wade Cudmore, with killing the Fryer brothers.
Several other people have been identified as co-conspirators, police said Monday, but have been released pending charge approval.
All three suspects who have been charged remained in custody as of Monday.
- with files from Casey Richardson/Castanet
