A manhunt was still underway Tuesday for a suspect in a triple murder investigation in Ontario’s Muskoka district, as questions emerged around why police, in lifting a shelter-in-place order, said there was no threat to public safety after earlier warning a potentially armed and dangerous person they believed had just shot someone and burned a house down remained on the loose.
Mitchell Gray, 29, a local man who knows the woods well, is wanted in connection with murder and arson after three bodies were discovered at a residence near Bracebridge, Ont., in the middle of prime cottage country, located about 185 kilometres north of Toronto.
When police responded to reports of shots fired at a home on Beatrice Town Line Road Friday night, they arrived to find one man dead in the driveway and t