The 2021 Ontario Homicide Victim List is available here.
OPP responded to a two-and-a-half-storey farmhouse at 120 Highway 15 near Seeley’s Bay, on June 2nd at approximately 4:00am, where they found Colin Gill, 44, deceased (allegedly beheaded), and two others Slade’s mother and sister seriously injured.
OPP said in a press release on June 2nd that Jay Slade, 36, of no fixed address has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder, indignity to a dead body and two counts of assault causing bodily harm.
The victims and the accused were known to each other and there is no concern for public safety.
Update: On January 15th 2025, Superior Court Justice John Johnston ruled that Jay Slade suffered from a major mental illness that caused him to experience commands to kill Colin Gill. According to CBC “Slade was responding to a “horrible command hallucination” from God to kill Gill in order to prevent “World War III.””
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call 1-888-311-1122. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.