N.B. man charged with second-degree murder in two N.S. homicides

NB man charged with homicides in NS A New Brunswick man is facing charges in connection to two homicides in Nova Scotia.

A wanted man who was arrested in connection with two homicides in Nova Scotia’s Colchester County earlier this week has officially been charged with murder.

The RCMP said Wednesday they were looking for 35-year-old Ronald Albert Canuel of Bathurst, N.B., who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant.

Later that day, police said Canuel had been arrested, but they didn’t provide any additional details.

The RCMP released more information Friday. It says officers found Canuel’s vehicle outside an apartment building in Campbellton, N.B., Wednesday and they arrested him outside the building around 3:30 p.m.

Canuel arrived back in Nova Scotia Friday and was due to appear in Truro provincial court, the RCMP told CTV News in an email.

Two men killed in Truro area

Canuel has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of two men in the Truro, N.S., area last month.

The Truro Police Service received information on Dec. 19, 2024, that a 27-year-old Truro man and a 25-year-old Pictou Landing First Nation man had been in hospital for treatment of serious injuries. Police said their injuries were consistent with stab wounds.

Two days later, before noon on Dec. 21, the RCMP responded to a report that a man was in medical distress at a home on Vincent Drive in Upper Onslow, N.S. The RCMP said the 25-year-old man died at the scene.

The next day, around 10 a.m., Truro police responded to a report of a man in medical distress at a home on Lavinia Drive in Truro. The 27-year-old man died at the scene.

Their deaths have been ruled as homicides. Police have determined the men were also the stabbing victims who had been in hospital.

Police said Canuel knew his alleged victims but haven’t said how.

The investigation is ongoing.

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