Great Kids : RCMP Charge 2nd Degree Murder

"We're asking for the public, if you spot Bryer or Kam, consider them dangerous. Do not approach. Take no action. And call immediately 911."
"Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky have left British Columbia. We believe that they're likely continuing to travel."
RCMP Sgt.Janelle Shoihet

"We can now confirm that this vehicle [recovered in the Gillam, Manitoba area] is the same vehicle the suspects were travelling in."
"We are engaged with police forces across Canada. We are investigating all tips and are continuing to ask for the public’s assistance."
RCMP Cpl. Julie Courchaine

"[I know my son is in] very serious pain, [and I expect he will die in a confrontation with police]."
"He’s on a suicide mission. He wants his pain to end."
"Basically, he’s going to be dead today or tomorrow. I know that. Rest in peace, Bryer. I love you. I’m so sorry all this had to happen."
Alan Schmegelsky, father of fugitive, Port Alberni, B.C.

Chynna Deese pictured with Lucas Fowler. The two were found murdered off the Alaska highway last week. Facebook / PNG

It all began with the discovery of the bodies of two young people, Lucas Fowler, 23, an Australian traveller, and his 24-year-old girlfriend from North Carolina, Chynna Deese. The two had met when each happened to take a trip to the same destination. They connected, fell in love, and decided to continue travelling together, in a 1986 Chevrolet van. On Monday last, their bodies were discovered close to a popular tourist spot, Liard Hot Springs. They were on their way to the Yukon. Initial news said nothing about their mode of death. It was later revealed they were shot to death.

Days later a pickup truck and camper was discovered around 470 kilometres' distant from the site of the murder of the couple. The Dodge Ram was on fire, and two kilometres away from the truck at a highway pullout the body of a 50ish-year-old man was discovered. Coincidentally two teens were known to be travelling in the area, and initially fears were expressed that McLeod, 19, and Schmegelsky, 18 of Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, had also been victims of foul play. Their families hadn't heard from them in days and they were assumed missing.

They're still missing, but the RCMP investigation, in its initial stages into the mysterious deaths, now regards the two young men as more than suspects in the grisly crimes. The young Australian man's father, Stephen Fowler, is a chief inspector with the New South Wales Police Force. The news of his son's murder and that of his companion has devastated him. A dreadful conclusion to the young lives of two people who had found love together. Chynna Deese's mother felt it comforting that her daughter had died together with the man she loved.

The families of the two young men being hunted by police were under the impression that the youths, long-time friends since elementary school, had gone looking for work in Whitehorse or Alberta. The father of the older of the two teens, Keith McLeod, has denied that his son could ever have committed such a criminal act. It appears from the scant information that has been so far divulged that the younger of the two may be pathologically deranged, convincing his older friend to cast away his humanity.

Schmegelsky had been living for the past several years with his grandmother, who had last had a communication from him on July 13. "He was a great kid. I really enjoyed having him", she said of her relationship with her grandson. Although the RCMP is clear that the two are suspects in the three murders, no information was released to the public about any evidence they may have that led them to that conclusion. And nor that they suspect the two to be armed.

This has become a manhunt for two deliberately elusive young men who have done quite a bit of evasive moving about to avoid capture, in the past several days. The provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and possibly Yukon Territory thus far involved, necessitating the cooperation of police forces throughout the provinces and territory. Bryer Schmegelsky's father described the two teens enjoying video games together, playing with Airsoft guns.

On his Facebook page several years ago Bryer Schmegelsky posted a photo of a handgun with the tagline: "Guns don't kill people -- It's mostly the bullets." How very arch. Take it a little further and it is really unbalanced psychopathic personalities that manipulate both guns and bullets to exercise their choice to murder people made helpless in the shock-inducing face of the presence of firearms.
 
"This is what I do know — Kam is a kind, considerate, caring young man [who] always has been concerned about other people’s feelings", attested Kam McLeod's father, of a son possibly under the psychological thrall of a psychopath. As for the kind considerate young man being led by another kind considerate person, there were the earlier words of his father who responded to news that the two were suspects: "No way, I know my son."

Denial first, acknowledgement later.

Dyck, who taught botany at the University of British Columbia, was identified by police on Wednesday, two days after they 
released a composite sketch of the man in hopes that someone would recognize him.  RCMP have identified the man discovered 
deceased on July 19, 2019 at a Highway pullout on Highway 37 as Leonard Dyck from Vancouver. RCMP handout