KELOWNA, B.C. – RCMP have charged a Kelowna man with the murder of Amy Jane Parkes, a woman who was found dead Tuesday in her Lakeshore Road mobile home.
Ryan James Quigley, 34, was arrested Thursday morning in an alley behind the 500 block of Coronation Avenue, near downtown Kelowna.
He was brought in for questioning by officers before being charged with second degree murder Friday.
Parkes was branch administrator at the Kelowna branch of Wood Gundy, an investment firm.
Neighbours say the 35-year-old woman and her boyfriend seemed to be a loving couple for the most part, often seen walking hand in hand through the Hiawatha Mobile Home Park, across from Okanagan Lake in Kelowna.
They also elude to recent trouble in the relationship.
“The trailer park had told him he had to be out by midnight,” say neighbour Stephen Russell, adding he had heard the man was in arrears for rent and recently unemployed. Russell says he had heard the couple arguing about money.
The victim’s father confirms recent friction in the couple’s two year relationship.
“She tried to get him to move out several times,” said the man to Global Okanagan News Thursday, asking not to be named.
Police put out a public plea for a 2002 SUV Wednesday after combing over the scene of Parkes death. RCMP said Quigley was likely in the vehicle and wanted as a ‘person of interest’.
Kelowna RCMP have not released information as to how Parkes was killed.
Quigley remains in custody and will be back in court Tuesday for a possible bail hearing.
While some people knew her as Aimee Parkes, RCMP confirm her legal name was Amy Parkes.
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