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3 charged with manslaughter over 2022 homicide in Yellowknife

The N.W.T. RCMP has charged three people with manslaughter related to the 2022 death of Feysal Farah in Yellowknife.

Two of the accused are in custody while a third, who was a youth at the time, remains at large

An RCMP cruiser in Yellowknife on July 30, 2021.
An RCMP cruiser in Yellowknife in 2021. Police say they have charged three people with manslaughter over a 2022 death in Yellowknife. (Liny Lamberink/CBC)

The N.W.T. RCMP has charged three people with manslaughter with a firearm over the death of Feysal Farah in Yellowknife in 2022.

In a news release Wednesday, police said Salim Shekh, 24, of Edmonton and Synthea Hope, 34, of Fort Simpson have both been charged. A 20-year-old man who was a youth at the time of Farah's death has also been charged.

In August 2022, police responded to a call at an apartment building in Yellowknife's downtown and found Farah's body. They said at the time that Farah, 36, died after being shot at a building on Con Road. 

Shekh and Hope are in custody, in Edmonton and in the N.W.T., respectively. The third person has not yet been located.