Mounties have located and arrested two suspects in connection to the hit-and-run that killed 25-year-old Emily Sheane in Burnaby last week.
The suspects, an unnamed 25-year-old man and 18-year-old woman, were found Sunday in the B.C. Interior community of Creston, more than 700 kilometres from Wednesday’s crash scene.
Creston RCMP was alerted after the pair showed up at a local hotel around 1:30 a.m. bloodied and claiming to have been involved in a single-vehicle crash.
“Officers attended and spoke to the two individuals,” Staff Sgt. Darryl Hammond said in a release. “The officers suspected that the names being provided were false and departed to assess the situation further.”
Hammond said Mounties went back to arrest the suspects after identifying the two as having an outstanding warrant for arrest, but the pair had already left the hotel. The duo was also identified as being possible suspects in the Burnaby hit-and-run.
They were located another motel in the area and taken into custody without incident.
Burnaby RCMP officers have since been dispatched to Creston to interview the suspects and examine their vehicle.
Sheane, an employee of Joe Fortes restaurant in Vancouver, was driving home from work when she was broadsided by a Range Rover that sped through a red light on Wednesday.
She died instantly.
Mounties said the luxury SUV was speeding at 100 kilometres an hour when it T-boned Sheane’s much smaller car.
Investigators said the Range Rover was “obtained fraudulently” but wasn’t stolen. No other information on the vehicle was released.
