- Two Canadian teens on the run and wanted for murder have been spotted foraging for food in a garbage dump around 50 miles from where they were last seen, Canada’s Global News reported.
- On Sunday, after a tip from civilian vigilantes, police moved the search to York Landing, a small town in Manitoba, 50 miles as the crow flies from Gillam, where the teens were last spotted on Thursday.
- The distance between Gillam and York Landing by car is around 125 miles, as there are few roads in the region.
- James Favel, executive director of civilian patrol group Bear Clan Patrol, told Global News that his team spotted two young men in clothing similar to what it is believed the suspects are wearing foraging for scraps at a garbage dump. They fled into the forest when they realized they had been seen.
- Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, are charged with murdering 64-year-old Leonard Dyck and suspects in the deaths of Lucas Fowler, 23, and US citizen Chynna Deese, 24.
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Two Canadian teens on the run and wanted for murder have reportedly been spotted foraging for food in a garbage dump around 50 miles from where they were last seen.
Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, are the center of a manhunt spanning 2,000 miles of Canadian wilderness, after being charged with the murder of a man in British Columbia, and named as suspects in the deaths of two backpackers.
On Sunday, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) tweeted its search had moved to the 400-person settlement of York Landing, around 50 miles away from Gillam, Manitoba, where the teens were seen on Thursday.
The two towns are separated by 50 miles of wilderness, but by car the distance between the two is around 125 miles as there are few roads in the area.
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Police had centered their search on the woods close to Gillam, but it appears that McLeod and Schmegelsky avoided the search and fled further afield.
James Favel, executive director of the Bear Clan Patrol, a civilian patrol body, told Canada’s Global News his team saw two men foraging for scraps in a dumpster in York Landing on Sunday — and called police.
"So they saw two guys near the dump and at first it didn’t strike them as odd because they thought it was associated with the work going on at this water treatment plant," Favel said.
"When they noticed the truck that was associated with those activities wasn’t present, then they kind of went: ‘Uh oh, this kind of might be something else,’ and so they were careful to get a description of the gentlemen that they saw, their exact location and the direction of travel after that."
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Favel said the pair got spooked and fled into the forest when they realised they were being watched.
RCMP tweeted on Thursday that McLeod and Schmegelsky: "MAY have changed their appearance & inadvertently been given assistance to leave the area by someone that was not aware of who they were."
"Police have deployed multiple resources in the area of York Landing, MB and in attempts to apprehend the suspects," Leroy Constant, the chief of York Factory First Nation, said in a statement. York Landing is in an indigenous Canadian area, and Constant’s status is akin to that of mayor.
"The (2) suspects are still at large and have NOT been caught. RCMP will remain on scene with Helicopter, Dogs & Emergency Response Team. They will remain until further notice."
Read more: Manhunt for 2 Canadian teen murder suspects narrowed to an inhospitable patch of wilderness, and locals say they won’t last long
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The pair, childhood friends from Vancouver, have been charged with the murder of 64-year-old Leonard Dyck near Dease Lake, British Columbia on July 19.
Police also suspect their involvement in the deaths of US citizen Chynna Deese, 24, and her Australian boyfriend Lucas Fowler, 23, on July 15, near Liard Hot Springs, British Columbia, more than 300 miles from Dease Lake.
The father of Schmegelsky on Wednesday said the two were on a "suicide mission" and would rather die in a "blaze of glory" than be arrested.
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