Three 2015 homicides remain cold cases

The sound of shots ringing out on Upper Fraser Road on Jan. 16 marked an inauspicious start to 2015.

Up until that day, Prince George had gone 637 days without a murder.

Police later confirmed Jordan Taylor McLeod, 24, had been murdered at the site, his body found Feb. 22 by a man walking his dog off the Kaykay Forest Service Road, past the end of Nukko Lake Road, northwest of the city.

In August, Darren Sundman, 34, Kurtis Sundman, 27, and Sebastian Martin, 43, were charged with murder in McLeod's death. Their case remains before the court.

The last murder had occurred on April 19, 2013 with the body of Gordon Stanley Adolph Sr., 42, was found in his 800-block Douglas Street home. Three people were also charged in that death - Gordon Stanley Adolph Jr., 25, Christopher Flanagan, 26, and a youth whose name cannot be released - and that case also remains before the court.

Three more people were the victims of homicides this year in Prince George. So far, no arrests have been made in those cases.

During the early morning of March 4, Ronald James Larson, 46, was stabbed to death near the corner of Vancouver Street and 11th Avenue.

And just three weeks later, on March 22, former Renegades biker gang president Jason Alexander Hall, 45, was killed in a late-morning shooting at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Gillett Street.

Then, on the morning of Aug. 23, the body of Ian Matthew Begg, 35, was found at the south end of Haldi Road.

However, two other cases are expected to go to trial in 2016.

Lyle William Baker, 43, Kevin Roy Zaporoski, 47, Bradley Douglas Barr, 36, and Dustin Allen Lindgren, 27, all face a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Jordan Christian Reno, 22.

Reno's body was found in a mobile home in the 4100 block of Knight Crescent in the Hart on June 23, 2012.

And in connection with the January 2012 death of Fribjon Bjornson, four people face charges.

Wesley Dennis Duncan, 29, has been charged with second-degree murder, Jesse Darren Bird, 33, has been charged with accessory after the fact to murder and interference with a dead body, James David Charlie, 25, has been charged with indignity to human remains and Teresa Marie Charlie, 23, has been charged with accessory after the fact to murder.

Bjornson remains were found in an abandoned home on the Nak'azdli reserve adjacent to Fort St. James.

Also this year, Garrett Steven George, 27, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Destiny Rae Tom, 21, whose badly-beaten body was found outside a home on the Nadleh reserve near Fort Fraser, during the early morning of March 23, 2013.

As well, second degree murder charges were laid against Shaun Keith Goodwin, 21, and a 20-year-old man who was 17 at the time of the offence, in the deaths of Blaine Albert Barfoot, 29, and Tara Lee Ann Williams, 40.

They were found dead in a Vanderhoof-area mobile home on Jan. 13, 2013.

Further afield, former Prince George resident Joshua Tyler Bredo, 31, faces a new trial in Victoria for the August 2011 murder, sexual assault and unlawful confinement of Daniel Jordan Levesque 20.