Murder charge upgraded for Toronto man accused in 2017 gay village death
TORONTO — A man accused of killing a young woman in Toronto’s gay village last year has seen his charge upgraded to first-degree murder.
Police initially charged Kalen Schlatter, 21, with second-degree murder last month in the death of Tess Richey, who investigators say died of “neck compression.”
Richey, 22, was reported missing in November after a night out with a friend.
Her mother, who travelled from her home in North Bay to search for her, found Richey’s body four days later in a stairwell at the back of an alley, just steps from where she was last seen alive.