Two teens charged in shooting death of 31-year-old

Two teenage boys are charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a 31-year-old man in Saskatoon.

Police on Thursday identified Mark Enwaya, 31, as the victim in the city’s second homicide of 2019. Patrol officers and Medavie Health Services West responded Tuesday around 7 p.m. to an alleyway in the 100 block of Avenue Q South after a report of an injured man.

Enwaya was declared dead at the scene “as a result of the discharge of a firearm,” police said Thursday. Investigators were focused on two locations connected to the homicide: the 100 block of Avenue Q South and the 200 block of Avenue S South. Patrol officers arrested a 15-year-old boy and 17-year-old boy on Tuesday night in the 200 block of Avenue S South without incident, a Saskatoon police spokeswoman said.

Both teens were in possession of a firearm when they were arrested, police said.

The teens and Enwaya are not believed to have known each other at the time of the killing, police said.

The teens appeared Thursday in Saskatoon provincial court and are scheduled to appear again Monday. Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, their identities are protected.

An autopsy was scheduled for Thursday.

In the first homicide of the year, 37-year-old Blake Jeffrey Schreiner was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his spouse.

Tammy Brown, 39, was found dead in her River Heights neighbourhood home on Jan. 31. Police went to the house on Kootenay Drive around 8:30 a.m. in response to a report of an injured person.