A fourth person has been arrested and charged in connection with an ongoing homicide investigation in Hay River.
A 32-year-old male, Tyler Cayen of Hay River, has been charged with murder and robbery, according to a Jan. 31 news release from the RCMP's Majors Crimes Unit.
Cayen has been remanded into custody and was scheduled to appear in court in Yellowknife on Feb. 6.
The charges relate to the death a man between Dec. 26 and Dec. 27 on the access road to Sandy Creek on the Hay River Reserve.
The RCMP have not released the name or any other information about the victim, but court documents in Yellowknife identify him as Alexander Norwegian.
Marie York-Condon, the RCMP G Division's media relations official, said the investigation into the death is continuing.
"It's a fairly complex investigation, so it's still ongoing," said York-Condon. "It doesn't indicate that there are necessarily other persons of interest or that we are anticipating that we would bring anybody else in. It just means that we're following up on the rest of the investigation."
She said that, if anyone has information regarding the death, the RCMP would encourage that person to contact them.
Three Hay River residents – two men and a woman – were charged in early January with murder and robbery.
The accused are James George Thomas, 25; Levi Cayen, 20; and Sasha Cayen, a 25-year-old female.
On the morning of Dec. 28, the RCMP responded to a report of a vehicle found on the side of the access road to the Sandy Creek area.
A deceased male was located inside the vehicle.
York-Condon said the RCMP will not be identifying the victim based on the federal Privacy Act.
"In general, the RCMP don't disclose a victim's name, any type of victim, whether or not it's an accident or a homicide, unless it would further the investigation," she explained. York-Condon noted the Privacy Act protects a victim's identity even after death, and even a family does not have authority under the act to give the RCMP permission to release a person's name.