Halifax man charged with two counts of first-degree murder in 2016 deaths
HALIFAX — A man who was already behind bars has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one of attempted murder more than a year and a half after the incidents, Halifax police said on Saturday.
Supt. Jim Perrin said Tyrell Peter Dechamp, 27, was arrested this week after investigators sifted through “mountains of evidence” and combed a Nova Scotia lake.
He is charged in the deaths of 29-year-old Tyler Richards and 23-year-old Naricho Clayton.
Richards, a former university basketball player who went on to play for the now-defunct Halifax Rainmen, was found dead in a home on April 17, 2016.