Watch above: Saskatchewan RCMP activated the Amber Alert system following the shooting death of a man and the apparent abduction of a 17-year-old girl from Lac La Ronge First Nation. Joel Senick says the girl was found safe but the suspect, Jonas Budd, is on the lam and believed to be armed and dangerous.
LA RONGE, Sask. – A manhunt is underway in Manitoba for a man who is alleged to have abducted a teen girl in northern Saskatchewan on Wednesday morning. Police are searching for Jonas Budd, who is also alleged to have killed a man.
Police issued an amber alert, since cancelled, for the 17-year-old after she was last seen at her residence on the Lac La Ronge First Nation shortly after 3 a.m. She was located by Cranberry Portage RCMP later in the morning safe and sound.
Cranberry Portage is about a 450 kilometre drive from La Ronge.
Budd has not been located and police say he may have fled into the bush. Mounties from Manitoba and Saskatchewan are searching the area, which is southeast of Flin Flon, Man.
La Ronge RCMP say gunshots were fired Wednesday morning at the home the teen was taken from and where a man was found dead. Investigators are working to confirm the identity of the victim and the number of shots fired.
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Mounties say Budd is the estranged common-law partner of the teen’s mother, who has been located safe.
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The initial 911 call to police was made by someone inside the residence.
Investigators have determined that there were four people in the home at the time of the shooting: the victim, the 17-year-old girl, an adult male and Jonas Budd.
An investigation into the fatal shooting on the Lac La Ronge Indian Band is ongoing. Investigators confirm no one else was injured during the initial incident.
“We’re putting the pieces of the puzzle together,” Sgt. Craig Cleary told reporters Wednesday morning.
Budd, 43, is five-foot nine-inches, 170 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. He has several tattoos including:
- Left forearm: bear paw
- Left calf: eagle head
- Left shin: ribbon with the name Nicole
- Upper torso, back: feathers
He had been driving a grey 2001 GMC Sierra 1500 extended cab with Saskatchewan licence plate 043 JEZ.
RCMP say Budd was previously known to the La Ronge detatchment, but couldn’t provide further details on his criminal record. Budd has connections to Cumberland House, Pinehouse, Sturgeon Landing, and Prince Albert and Thompson, Man.
Budd is considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached. Anyone with information on his whereabouts asked to call 911 or your local police detachment.
With files from Mike McKinnon
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