Published: September 20, 2025 at 5:24PM EDT
A photo of John Potvin is displayed during an RCMP news conference about Rabih Alkhalil, in Surrey, B.C., on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025. Alkhalil escaped the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam, B.C., in July 2022, while on trial for the 2012 shooting murder of a gang rival in a busy Vancouver restaurant. He was later found guilty by a jury in his absence. (Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press)