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The Pas, Man. woman 4th suspect arrested in connection with gruesome February murder, dismemberment

The police investigation led to this home on Pritchard Avenue in Winnipeg. Global News / File

A fourth suspect has been arrested in a February homicide, Winnipeg police said.

Police arrested Kayla Josephine Bercier, a 23-year-old woman from The Pas, and charged her as an accessory after the fact to murder in the death of Brandon Brust.

Bercier is also facing a charge of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm and two counts of failing to comply with the conditions of a release order.

RCMP found the body of Brust — who had been reported missing on Feb. 11 — in the RM of Woodlands on March 30.

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Sources told Global News at the time that he had been dismembered and stuffed into multiple suitcases after being killed.

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The police investigation uncovered that Brust had been brutally assaulted and left for dead inside a home on Pritchard Avenue, where other victims were also seriously assaulted, including a sexual assault and an incident of forcible confinement.

Three adults were charged with the homicide. Bercier, the fourth, was arrested Sept. 9 in The Pas by RCMP.

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