Man charged in Maghagak homicide

One year since Rhoda Maghagak was found dead in her home in Cambridge Bay, RCMP have arrested a man in connection with her death.

Christopher Jame Allukpik, 24, was charged with first-degree murder this past Wednesday. He is now in custody and was scheduled to appear in court in Iqaluit yesterday, after Nunatsiaq News press time.

Allukpik is formerly of Kugluktuk, but was living in Cambridge Bay at the time of Maghagak’s death. Police arrested him at the North Slave Correctional Centre in Yellowknife, where he was serving time for unrelated offences that took place in Kugluktuk.