Three people now facing first-degree murder charges in connection to Regina homicide
Regina police have charged two more people with first-degree murder in connection to the death of 35-year-old Aron Lunan, whose body was found near Grand Coulee in June.
Thirty-year-old Patrick Akapew and 38-year-old Tyler Wayne Edwards were both arrested and charged on Thursday, Regina police said in a news release.
Twenty-four-year-old Britain Volk was charged with first-degree murder earlier this week.
On June 10 RCMP were called to a rural area near Grand Coulee, just west of Regina, for the report of a deceased person, later identified as Lunan.
Throughout the investigation police discovered that the case originated in Regina, which resulted in Regina police taking over the investigation from RCMP.
Akapew and Edwards are scheduled to make their first court appearances Friday morning in Regina, police said.
Grand Coulee is about 17 kilometres west of Regina.
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