Investigation Continues Into Murder

By Michelle Cyr-Whiting

Photo taken from barricade at 16th and Hemlock, showing officers in 1800-block

Prince George, B.C. -  The on-site investigation into the city's first homicide of 2010 lasted through most of the day...

A resident in the 18-hundred block of Hemlock Street noticed the body of a man lying in a pool of blood in the snow, just before 7:30 this morning. (click here for previous story)

RCMP Constable Gary Godwin says it appears the 27-year-old male victim had been fatally shot.  Godwin says the man was from Prince George and was known to police, but he can't yet speculate as to whether it's related to the drug trade...saying the investigation is still in its infancy.

Godwin says police had received several calls of shots being fired in the vicinity of Hemlock Street around five in the morning.  He says patrols were made, but nothing was found at the time.  "Because of the position of the deceased and the snow in the area, a body -- if, indeed one was there at 5:00am this morning, could not be seen by Police from the road at the time."

Police cordoned off a wide area of the Millar Addition neighbourhood for the entire morning and well into the afternoon.

Hemlock Street was closed for a three-block stretch, from 16-hundred to the 19-hundred block, and Ingledew, Hemlock and Gorse Streets, between 17th Avenue and 19th Avenue were also behind cruiser barricades while officers combed the neighbourhood for clues.

Constable Godwin says, "Police are asking the public to call should they have any information which could shed light on this homicide.

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