The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has laid charges including two counts of second-degree murder and one count of indignity to human remains in connection with a 2022 Burnaby double homicide.
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The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) announced Friday it has laid charges against a 27-year-old man in connection with the 2022 homicides of two people in Burnaby.
IHIT says the accused is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of indignity to human remains.
The charges relate to the deaths of 31-year-old Kiesha Garie and 30-year-old Umair Kasim.
According to IHIT, Garie and Kasim were found inside a car near École Alpha Secondary School in the area of Alpha Avenue and Venables Street on Oct. 17, 2022.
IHIT says the victims had previously been reported missing to Coquitlam RCMP and that both were from Coquitlam.
IHIT says the accused charged in the case is Mohammed Arif Ansari.
IHIT says it believes the incident was a targeted homicide, where all three people knew each other.
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