Second-degree murder charge laid – image released in Clarke Street killing
KAMLOOPS – Jason Michael Holm is facing a charge of second-degree murder in connection with Saturday’s (Aug. 1) stabbing death on Clarke Street in Kamloops.
Police allege the Kamloops man stabbed 39-year-old Paul Samuel Whitten Jr. Police found Whitten in his home with stab wounds. He was taken by ambulance to Royal Inland Hospital, where he died later.
RCMP say the killing is not connected to organized crime or the drug trade. Holm and Whitten lived next door to each other and knew each other.