Halifax police have issued a murder charge in the homicide of 35-year-old Alexander Joseph Frederick Thomas.
Halifax Regional Police say 27-year Tyreece Alexander Whynder-Ewing has been charged with second-degree murder, and have obtained a Canada-wide warrant for his arrest.
Public Information Officer Cst. John MacLeod said Thursday that police cannot go to the specifics of what Thomas’s and Whynder-Ewing’s relationship was, but both individuals were known to each other.
Early Saturday, police found Thomas’s body at a residence on Braeside Court in Dartmouth, N.S. and later ruled his death as a homicide.
Thomas was previously accused in a high-profile sexual assault, facing charges of sexual assault and forcible confinement in relation to an incident that occurred in 2018. Those have now been withdrawn
Carrie Low, who identified herself as the complainant in the sexual assault case, had been outspoken about the incident and how she said Halifax police mishandled the case.
Const. John MacLeod was asked by media if there was a connection between the accused and Low, MacLeod responded police are “here to talk about the homicide.”
“What I can tell you is that the sexual assault investigation is ongoing and we are investigating that matter further,” he said.
Police say investigators don’t believe the killing was random and they aren’t looking for other suspects.
Anyone with information about Whynder-Ewing is being asked to call police.