DEER LAKE FIRST NATION — Police say they’ve laid a first-degree murder charge in a death at Deer Lake First Nation.
Provincial police says officers with the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service responded last weekend to a report of a person in medical distress at a home in the northern Ontario First Nation.
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They say police found a body inside the home when they arrived, which was identified as 37-year-old Lee Conroy Kakekagumick of Deer Lake First Nation.
Officers say a 35-year-old man from the First Nation was arrested and originally charged with aggravated assault.
They say that has now been upgraded to a charge of first-degree murder.
Police are asking anyone with information to reach out.
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