A 25-year-old man wanted for second-degree murder is in custody after a chase with Saskatoon police.
Curtis Kevin Morin, wanted in Saskatoon’s second homicide of 2017, was arrested alongside two others Wednesday. Police allege he was one of three people in a stolen car who pointed a shotgun at an officer.
Police say an officer spotted the stolen vehicle at 38th Street and Avenue B North at about 11:20 a.m. and tried to pull over the car — which had been reportedly stolen at gunpoint Tuesday.
The driver refused to stop and, on at least two occasions, one of the three people inside the car pointed a shotgun at an officer, according to Saskatoon police.
The suspects evaded officers for several blocks before abandoning the car at 31st Street and Avenue I and fleeing on foot.
Two suspects were nabbed immediately and a shotgun was recovered, police said. A police dog unit tracked the third suspect, who was hiding under a nearby deck.
Morin — one of the three arrested, according to police — was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for second-degree murder in the death of Bailey Lonechild.
Lonechild was stabbed early in the morning Jan. 17 while in a home on the 100 block of Avenue M South.
He was transported to St. Paul’s Hospital, where he died of his injury.
Charges are pending in relation to Wednesday’s chase, according to police.
