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UPDATED: Two men escape from healing lodge
RCMP are searching for two men who were serving time at a healing lodge near Duck Lake.
Royce Virgil Bear, 31, and Brandon Avery White, 23, were discovered missing from the Willow Cree Healing Lodge during a head count at around 5 p.m. on Sunday. Both men were serving sentences for manslaughter.
Bear was sentenced back in March of 2011 in connection to a death at the Shoal Lake Reserve. In 2009, Bear hit a 24-year-old man in the head with a 2-by-4 during an argument, and killed him. He was serving a five-year, 10-month sentence.
He is believed to have escaped with White who was serving an eight-year sentence for manslaughter, and use of a firearm. He was sent to a federal penitentiary back in 2009 following a gang-related killing. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a 20-year-old man.