Canada-wide warrant issued for B.C. man accused of murder in Fort Providence, N.W.T.

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· Posted: Mar 19, 2025 6:01 PM EDT | Last Updated: 18 minutes ago

A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a man charged with execution pursuing a shooting successful Fort Providence, N.W.T., past weekend.

In a quality merchandise Wednesday afternoon, territorial RCMP said they person charged Krystian Cogswell, 22, with murder, attempted execution and 2 counts of aggravated assault.

In the quality release, RCMP said Cogswell, who is from Surrey, B.C., remains astatine ample and is considered equipped and dangerous.

Police responded to the shooting aboriginal Saturday greeting and recovered a 31-year-old antheral dormant and 2 different radical injured. Earlier this week, RCMP said they believed the shooting was linked to the cause trade.

The shooting near radical successful Fort Providence and surrounding communities shaken and fearing for their safety.

Wednesday's quality merchandise said 1 of the injured radical was transported to Fort Providence's wellness centre. The 2nd injured idiosyncratic was airlifted to Yellowknife for exigency treatment.

RCMP said their probe shows Cogswell "fled Fort Providence aft the shooting and has apt made his mode to points southbound of the territory." They said investigators "are actively seeking to find him."

RCMP said Cogswell is besides wanted connected a abstracted warrant from Inuvik, successful transportation with suspected cause trafficking offences past year. He was connected bail conditions that required him to unrecorded successful B.C. and prohibited him from entering the N.W.T.