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Victim in Pitt Meadows homicide identified as 31-year-old Randy Semotiuk

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 19 Apr, 2023 05:02 PM
  • Victim in Pitt Meadows homicide identified as 31-year-old Randy Semotiuk

Police have identified the victim in a homicide in Pitt Meadows this week as 31-year-old Randy Semotiuk. 

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team released his name today in hopes the public will come forward with more information. 

Police say the unhoused man from Maple Ridge had not been seen for several days, prompting a search from the R-C-M-P.

Officers later found Semotiuk on Lougheed Highway, just west of the Golden Ears Bridge.

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