Two men charged in 2019 Kamloops murder of Penticton man
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KAMLOOPS — RCMP say charges have been laid against two men in connection with the murder of Rex Gill, a Penticton man who was gunned down outside of a Kamloops hotel seven years ago.
On the morning of Jan. 23, 2019, 41-year-old Rex Gill was smoking a cigarette outside the Comfort Inn and Suites Hotel (now the Prestige Kamloops Hotel) in Aberdeen when he was shot. Two hours before that shooting, 31-year-old Cody Mathieu was also shot and killed outside the Super 8 Motel in Valleyview.
While Mathieu was involved in the local drug trade and known to police, the RCMP later said Gill’s death was a case of mistaken identity and that he was not associated with any criminal activity.
RCMP say Hugh Alexander McIntosh, 58, and Brandon Dale Fiddick, 34, have both been charged in Gill’s death. McIntosh was previously convicted of first-degree murder in the Feb. 2019 shooting death of Jason Glover, but that was later downgraded to a second-degree conviction.
