Prince George RCMP are asking for the public's help in getting to the bottom of a home invasion that is now a homicide investigation after one of the victims who was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries has since died, RCMP said Tuesday.
"We are once again appealing to the public to come forward with any information about the identities of the persons who entered the residence where the victim was located in the time before the home invasion occurred," RCMP Cpl. Jennifer Cooper said in a statement.
RCMP were called the the home in the 300-block of Nicholson St. South - about a half-block north of Fifth Avenue - on Monday, June 19, shortly after 8 p.m.
The victim was identified as a male. A woman was also found in the home with injuries and also taken to hospital.
Police are asking anyone with a dashcam who may have been driving in the area between about 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. to contact Prince George RCMP by calling 250-561-3300.
The death raises the number of homicides in and around the city so far this year to six.
Danika Payou faces a count of from the February 14 death of a woman in the Sunrise Valley Mobile Home Park in the 3700 block of Lansdowne Road.
Dakota Ryan Keewatin has been in relation to a March 7 incident outside a 1500-block Queenway apartment building.
Both remain in custody.
The February 4 in a 500-block 17th Avenue home and an April 1 in a 2200 Quince Street have been deemed homicides.
As well, a search for James Archibald (Jimmy) Webb became a when his body was found April 19 in a rural area about 80 kilometres northeast of the city.
