By Canadian Press

NORTHERN BC CRIME

Father of slain man says couple’s double homicide in B.C. devastating for two families

Jul 22, 2019 | 3:27 PM

SURREY, B.C. — The father of an Australian man who was gunned down with his girlfriend while travelling on a remote British Columbia highway says the deaths are a tragic end to a love story between the inseparable couple.

Chief Insp. Stephen Fowler of the New South Wales Police Force says he spoke with his globe-trotting son Lucas Fowler before he and his American girlfriend Chynna Deese left on a road trip from northern B.C.

Chynna Deese and Lucas Fowler. (Image Credit: Global BC)

Fowler says nothing in his job as a police officer had prepared him for the devastating news he received about his son’s shooting death at the side of the Alaska Highway, where the couple’s bodies were found a week ago.

Police say this man is not a suspect in the homicides, but are looking to speak with him. (Image Credit: RCMP Handout)

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RCMP have released a composite sketch of a bearded man a witness saw speaking with the pair, who were driving a 1986 blue Chevrolet van.

Sgt. Janelle Shoihet says the man was driving an older-model Jeep Cherokee with a black stripe on the hood and police would like him to contact them.

RCMP say they are also trying to identify a man found dead on Friday near the community of Dease Lake — roughly 470 kilometres away.

They say it’s unusual to have two homicide investigations going on in northern B.C. at the same time, and they are not ruling out a link.

Police say they continue to treat the disappearance of two teenagers from Port Alberni, who had been driving a burned out camper found about two kilometres from the body, as a missing person’s case.

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