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Charges laid in Maple Ridge homicide

Police have cordoned off an area in Maple Ridge on Dec. 19, 2015.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) has now laid charges against a 29-year-old man in relation to the shooting death of another man last year.

Thirty-three-year-old Pitt Meadows resident Peter Bender was found dead in the parking lot of the Haney Presbyterian Church on 216 St and Lougheed Highway on Dec. 19, 2015.

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Twenty-nine-year-old Randy Scott has now been charged with second degree murder and is in police custody after turning himself in.

IHIT says the homicide was a result of a domestic incident that occurred in the early morning hours.

Scott is expected to appear in the Port Coquitlam Provincial Court on Feb. 18.

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