Two 16-year-old boys from Nelson House have been charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of 17-year-old Dakota Garth Hunter, also of Nelson House on the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, early Saturday morning. They appeared in Thompson provincial youth court Monday and were remanded in custody. The suspects cannot be named pursuant to the federal Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Karpish said Hunter was found along a roadway about 4:30 a.m. Aug. 29 and rushed to Thompson General Hospital, where he died of his injuries.
A post-mortem took place today at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg and determined the cause of death was "multiple injuries due to trauma," RCMP said Monday afternoon.
Hunter had been involved in fundraising for his friend Tori Yetman's two journeys the last two years in June from Nelson House to Winnipeg. The event, known as Tori's Run, is a fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society and was inspired by inspired by the deaths of her friends, Roderick (Rocket) Spence, who succumbed to leukemia when he was four, and Matthew Berard Stevens, who died of bone marrow cancer last year at 14.
Yetman says she will dedicate next year's trek to Hunter.
