By Canadian Press

Police search for fugitive jailed for two murders who escaped Quebec detention centre

Feb 11, 2021 | 8:17 AM

SAINT-ALPHONSE-RODRIGUEZ, Que. — Quebec provincial police are looking for a federal inmate serving a sentence for two murders who vanished from a minimum security facility north of Montreal Wednesday evening.

David Everett Alexson was last seen leaving the Waseskun Healing Lodge, a community residential and detention centre, around 6 p.m.

Alexson, 51, is serving an indeterminate sentence for two counts of second-degree murder and for arson, escape from lawful custody, prison breach with intent, assault against a peace officer and break and enter with intent.

Authorities say Alexson is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 183 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair, a scar on his right hand and left arm and who has several tattoos on both arms, chest and back.

Correctional Service of Canada says it is working with provincial police to track down Alexson and says it will investigate how he managed to escape.

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The Waseskun Healing Centre is a non-profit Indigenous organization affiliated with the federal correctional service, located in St-Alphonse-Rodriguez, Que., about 95 kilometres north of Montreal.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 11, 2021.

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