Nunavut RCMP says Kimmirut deaths classified as “murder”

The three deaths which took place over Easter weekend in Kimmirut have been classified as “murder,” police said. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

The deaths of three people in Kimmirut March 30 have been classified as “murder,” police said April 2.

But RCMP investigators are not looking for any suspects of interest in connection with the deaths of a man, 27, a woman, 23, and their son, 27 months, said Cpl. Yvonne Niego, a spokesperson for the RCMP’s V Division.

Firearms were involved, Niego said, but she declined to give more details until after the autopsy reports on the three deceased are complete, or confirm if one of the dead adults may have died by suicide.

Niego repeated that there is no danger or risk to anyone in the community.

But people say everyone is devastated in Kimmirut, which has a population of about 425, the majority of whom the age of 25.

Kimmirut, located about 120 kilometres from Iqaluit, had just come out of a turbulent 2012, marked by two violent firearms incidents: in March, a man fired multiple rounds at two RCMP staff houses, while in July an intoxicated man fired multiple rounds at the community’s RCMP detachment.

The two incidents evoked painful memories of the 2007 killing of 20-year-old RCMP Cst. Douglas Scott in Kimmirut.