Eighteen-year-old Melissa Charles has been identified as the victim of a serious assault that occurred in the northern community, located about an hour northeast of La Ronge.
RCMP located Charles and an injured man in front of a residence on Charles Street in Grandmother’s Bay. Charles was declared dead on the scene by paramedics. The man was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
RCMP arrested a suspect in the community shortly after the incident.
Twenty-six-year-ol Keyland McLeod of Grandmother’s Bay is charged with one count of second degree murder, one count of assault with a weapon and one count of uttering threats. McLeod appeared in La Ronge Provincial Court on Monday.