Murder charge in PoCo death
A Saskatchewan man faces a murder charge in connection with the Nov. 4 death of Jonathon Shingoose in Port Coquitlam.
Coquitlam RCMP responded to a disturbance at a home in the 2300-block of Atkins Avenue at 5:44 a.m.
Inside, police found Shingoose suffering from serious injuries. He later died after being transported to hospital by ambulance.
On Friday, the RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team arrested Elwood Terry Poorman. He’s since been charged with second-degree murder.
Poorman, born in 1981, is scheduled to appear in Vancouver provincial court on Tuesday.
“IHIT investigators, supported by the Coquitlam RCMP, steadfastly worked to compile the evidence for charge-approval consideration by Crown counsel,” said IHIT Cpl. Frank Jang of IHIT. “Our police investigation is ongoing. It has been turned over to the B.C. Prosecution Service and the matter will be before the court.”
In 2007, Poorman, along with James Terrace Slippery and Gerald Wayne Littlecrow, pleaded guilty to being accessories after the fact in the 2004 murder of 19-year-old Elizabeth Halkett in Saskatoon.
The three men were all members of the Indian Posse street gang.
Court was told Halkett was murdered because she intended to testify against an Indian Posse member who had killed her brother.
Poorman helped burn her house and Halkett’s body in an attempt to cover up the murder.
He was sentenced to five years and received four years credit for remand time.
In 2010, Poorman was convicted of break-and-enter and possession of stolen property in connection with a Vancouver break-in.