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A suspect sought in a St. Thomas homicide was arrested in London as more details emerged about a second man charged with second-degree murder in the death of a woman.
Keegan Harvey, 21, of St. Thomas spent three weeks on the lam before police arrested him Wednesday in London, St. Thomas police said Thursday.
Harvey was arrested a day after St. Thomas police announced Nathan Deleemans, 30, of St. Thomas was charged with second-degree murder, arson with disregard for life and failing to comply with a release order in the death of Victoria Dill.
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Dill, 40, died in hospital after she was found with a gunshot wound near the scene of a fire at her apartment in a multi-unit building at 20 Hiawatha St. in St. Thomas on July 3. Investigators later ruled the fire arson and the death a homicide.
Court records show Deleemans has been in custody since July 19, when he was arrested and charged with arson and failing to comply with a probation order. Five days later he also was charged with second-degree murder.
Deleemans racked up a string of charges in several unrelated cases in June, when he was charged with breaking and entering with intent to commit an indictable offence, theft valued at less than $5,000, possession of fentanyl and several counts of failing to comply with a probation order, the documents say.
Police arrested Deleemans on June 21 and he was granted bail the same day, the document says.
Deleemans appeared in court Wednesday on the murder charge and was remanded into custody until his next appearance on Aug. 8.
Harvey, who is charged with arson with disregard for life and being an accessory after the fact to murder, appeared briefly in court Thursday and was remanded into custody.
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St. Thomas police identified him as a suspect on July 9.
Residents of Dill’s building on Hiawatha Street and neighbours recalled hearing a single gunshot and later seeing a woman lying on the ground in a nearby parking lot. The multi-unit home – one block from Talbot Street, the city’s main downtown area – had fire damage to an exterior stairway leading to one unit, with insulation and debris strewn on the sidewalk below.
Gun violence is relatively rare in St. Thomas, where there have been two previous shootings, neither of them fatal, in the past decade.
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