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Tragic end to search for missing Vancouver senior with brain injury

The search for Thomas Tremblay has come to a tragic conclusion. Burnaby RCMP

The search for a missing Vancouver man with a brain injury has come to a tragic conclusion.

Burnaby RCMP located Thomas Tremblay, 68, Sunday morning in a remote part of Byrne Creek Ravine Park. They believe he died of exposure.

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Tremblay had left his home in South Vancouver to go for a walk in Burnaby on Friday but failed to return that evening for dinner.

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Police confirmed he tapped out of the transit system at Edmonds Station around 1 p.m. on Friday and focused their efforts on the Byrne Creek Park area.

Tremblay’s disappearance sparked a search including both the Vancouver police and Burnaby RCMP, along with Coquitlam Search and Rescue.

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