Upper Fraser Valley RCMP said officers responded to report of a body found on a rural road near Hope on April 20th. Police arrived at the scene to find Michael Walter Bonin 20, dead.

Police have not determined if Bonin was murdered where he was found, or if his body was moved after the fact.

More information will be added as it becomes available.

Update January 16th 2018
Homicide investigators have not released the motive in Bonin’s death, however first degree murder charges have been laid against Joshua Fleurant, 20, Ryan Watt, 26, and Jared Jorgenson, 27.