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By Victor Kaisar

River Search

Search for missing 23-year-old man who jumped off Overlanders Bridge expected to resume Friday

Aug 7, 2025 | 5:53 PM

KAMLOOPS — RCMP in Kamloops say the search for a missing 23-year-old man who is presumed to have drowned after he jumped off the Overlanders Bridge more than a week ago will be resuming this Friday (Aug. 8).

In a statement to CFJC Today, Kamloops RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Dana Napier said Kamloops Search and Rescue (KSAR) and the RCMP will be working on trying to locate the missing man, who has been identified as Braden Wallace-Peters.

“I can confirm that Search and Rescue in collaboration with the RCMP and aerial and watercraft support will be making efforts to locate the missing man,” Napier said. “In consultation with KSAR and based on past experience, there is the potential the missing person could surface therefore SAR has been re-activated.”

Napier also said the RCMP’s dive team has not yet been deployed, noting a decision to do so will be “based on tangible information that may support a specific search area or target.”

“The investigation is still ongoing,” Napier added. “There is no further information available at this time, if anything changes an update will be provided.”

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According to the Peters family, Braeden’s jump last Wednesday (July 30) was a “recreational jump that tragically, sadly, went wrong.”

“Please keep an eye out for my son. He’s a young native with red shorts and hearts on them,” his mother, Nancy Peters, said, noting the family is hoping people with drones, boats or kayaks, or those with previous search experience can assist in whichever way they can.

More than two dozen friends and family members as well as members of the public have been conducting their own searches while awaiting the RCMP’s dive team to set up its operation.

“On the weekend, it was really busy which was good because then for us it was more eyes out there,” Bernadette Dennis, Nancy’s cousin, told CFJC Today on Wednesday. “Now that it’s a weekday, it’s pretty quiet out there.”

“There’s strangers we run into that tell us, ‘We’re out there, we’re helping, we have our eyes open, we’re watching from our house. It’s really reassuring knowing that you have the eyes out there that are helping.”

People with information are asked to call the Kamloops RCMP at 250-828-3000 and reference file number 2025-24701.