Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky are now considered suspects in the killing of three people in northern BC. (RCMP)

By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff

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Formerly missing Port Alberni teens now suspects in northern BC killings

Jul 23, 2019 | 4:29 AM

VANCOUVER — RCMP say two British Columbia teenagers who were first thought to be missing are now considered suspects in the deaths of three people in northern B.C.

RCMP Sgt. Janelle Shoihet told reporters 19-year-old Kam McLeod and 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky are considered suspects in the deaths of Australian Lucas Fowler, his American girlfriend Chynna Deese and an unidentified man found a few kilometres from the teens’ burned-out vehicle.

Shoihet says McLeod and Schmegelsky were last seen in northern Saskatchewan, driving a grey 2011 Toyota Rav 4.

On Tuesday around 3:15 p.m., Manitoba RCMP advised the pair were spotted in the area of Gillam, MB. It’s a rural area roughly 11 hours north-east of Winnipeg.

They are considered “at large and dangerous” but the RCMP.

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Police say the geography of the incidents in northern BC make the investigation difficult, as well as the suspects crossing juristictional lines.

@the canadianpress