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By James Peters
Williams Lake Murder

Man charged in 2019 Williams Lake murder

May 27, 2020 | 10:21 AM

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — A man already charged in a 2019 Williams Lake homicide has now been charged in another homicide three days earlier.

According to a news release from Insp. Lorne Wood, head of RCMP North District Major Crime Unit, 26-year-old Jayson Gilbert is facing a charge of second degree murder in the August, 2019 killing of Richard Duncan.

Mounties investigating a shots fired complaint at a home on Mackenzie Avenue on August 6 found Duncan severely injured. He died later in hospital.

Gilbert was already one of three men facing murder charges in the August 9 death of Branton Regner. Jordell Sellars and Michael Drynock are also charged.

Regner’s body was found on August 27 in the Fraser River, about three weeks after an incident on the Rudy Johnson Bridge north of Williams Lake.

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In addition to the murder charges, Gilbert, Sellars and Drynock are all facing kidnapping and attempted murder charges in the Regner incident.

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