Independent reviews of separate police-involved deaths in B.C. sent to the Crown
SURREY, B.C. — The Independent Investigations Office of British Columbia has sent two reports to the Crown for consideration of charges about separate and unrelated deaths involving RCMP officers.
The office says one case involves the Jan. 29, 2015, shooting of 39-year-old Waylon Edey, who lived in Yahk.
He died during a traffic stop at the Kinnaird Bridge in Castlegar.
The other case involves the death of 53-year-old Jacobus Jonker, who died six days after an incident while he was in custody in Smithers on Feb. 15, 2015.