SURREY, B.C. — Homicide investigators in the Vancouver area have announced arrests in two separate cold cases.
Both involve murders in Surrey, B.C. — the first in 2006 and the second in 2009.
The RCMP-led regional homicide unit says 25-year-old David Mitchell was attacked in October 2006 and pronounced dead in hospital two days later.
Police say 35-year-old Khalid Arnaout has been charged with second-degree murder, while 32-year-old Charles Chambers, 34-year-old Michael Yost and 32-year-old Kevin Alexander Pigott are charged with manslaughter and accessory after the fact.
The second case involves the death of 25-year-old James Erickson, who was found dead in an apartment in February 2009.
Police say 28-year-old David Clifford Sadler has been charged with first-degree murder.
