Warning issued after 2 drug-related deaths in Dawson Creek less than 24 apart

Dawson Creek RCMP are informing the nationalist astir a perchance toxic cause proviso aft 2 overdose-related deaths successful nether 24 hours past month.

On Sept. 9 astatine astir 5:30 p.m., a 43-year-old pistillate was recovered deceased successful a makeshift structure adjacent 17th Street and Willowbrook Crescent.

Police said they located galore signs the woman, identified arsenic Lynsey Shendruk, had been utilizing illicit drugs anterior to her death.

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At astir 1:00 p.m. connected Sept. 10, a 30-year-old antheral was recovered dormant successful Barbaree Park adjacent Chamberlain Drive and 15th Street, little than 1 kilometre distant from wherever Shendruk was located.

Staff Sgt. Rob Hughes with Dawson Creek RCMP confirmed the deceased antheral was the aforesaid idiosyncratic who discovered Shendruk unresponsive a time earlier.

Again, constabulary said items recovered astatine the country of the man’s decease were indicative of caller cause use.

According to RCMP, the BC Coroners Service has taken implicit the investigations into some deaths.