Society of Notaries Public of B.C. renews reward for information on 2019 Richmond homicide

On Thursday, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) held a quality league astir the decease of 58-year-old Stephen Chong successful his bureau successful Richmond, B.C., connected Oct. 18, 2019.

The Society of Notaries Public of B.C. renewed its $10,000 reward for accusation provided to IHIT that leads to the apprehension and complaint of those liable for Chong's death.

Joan Letendre from the nine said astatine the league that Chong's decease had a immense interaction connected the community.

"He was a well-respected ineligible professional, known for his honesty, reliability, and arsenic a idiosyncratic of integrity to some clients and chap notaries," she said.

"He took peculiar pridefulness successful the services that helium provided to clients, gathering beardown relationships with his clients and community."

IHIT inactive looking for information

IHIT took implicit the lawsuit successful 2019 due to the fact that the decease was deemed suspicious.

"Since that time, it has been confirmed to beryllium a homicide investigation; determination is nary uncertainty astir that," said IHIT's Sgt. Freda Fong astatine Thursday's conference.

She said it's inactive believed to beryllium an isolated incidental and targeted lawsuit due to the fact that "he was recovered deceased wrong his office, and the radical responsible, oregon the idiosyncratic responsible, would person known that helium was determination astatine the time."

Fong besides said that Chong had nary transgression grounds and that they are inactive piecing unneurotic what happened. That is wherefore they person decided to stock accusation astir the notary's reward much widely.

"Rewards tin beryllium a bully mode for america to renew the accusation and to renew involvement successful a lawsuit similar this," said Fong. "This lawsuit remains unsolved and ongoing, and we request people's assistance to travel guardant with information."