New Brunswick RCMP say they have charged a man from Elsipogtog First Nation with second degree murder, after a homicide last week in the community.
On the morning of Oct. 7, police responded to a report of an altercation at a home on Oak Street, in which a man was in medical distress. Police said in a release a man “appeared to have suffered stab wounds” and died at the scene.
The victim has been identified as 36-year-old Alexander Matthew Peters of Elsipogtog First Nation.
The same day Peters was found, police arrested 46-year-old Nibogtoog Leonard Francis, also from Elsipogtog First Nation, and seized a weapon. He was charged with second degree murder the following day, and remains in custody.
Francis is set to reappear in court on the morning of Nov. 8.
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As the RCMP continues to investigate, they ask anyone who may have video surveillance footage from the areas of Oak Street or Graham Road, between midnight and 9 a.m. on Oct. 7 or may have witnessed anything suspicious, to contact police.
Victim ‘sadly missed’: obituary
According to his obituary, Peters “was a very talented artist that loved to draw and bead.”
His family called him “Al” and said “he was creative, precise, patient and a perfectionist with a very steady hand.”
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The obituary said he will be “sadly missed” by his parents, grandparents, his five siblings and “all of Elsipogtog.”
His funeral is set for Wednesday.
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