{"id":632738,"date":"2026-04-27T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/632738\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:41:08","slug":"28-year-old-alberta-murder-suspect-arrested-in-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/632738\/","title":{"rendered":"28-year-old Alberta murder suspect arrested in B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              28-year-old Alberta murder suspect arrested in B.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 1:02 pm Monday, April 27, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\n                    By Sooke News Mirror Staff\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>A man wanted in connection to a murder in Alberta has been arrested in Sooke.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Erich Hill was arrested Saturday (April 25) by Vermilion RCMP with the assistance of Alberta RCMP\u2019s Major Crimes Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Sooke and West Shore RCMP detachments, including West Shore\u2019s bike unit, also assisted in locating Hill and his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Hill was arrested in relation to the murder of 30-year-old Vermilion resident Brady Greg Snelgrove on Jan. 21 in Vermilion.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta RCMP Major Crimes Unit was able to secure sufficient evidence to support charges and obtained an arrest warrant for Hill on April 22, said a RCMP news release. However, investigators determined Hill had fled Alberta after Snelgrove\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old of no fixed address has been charged with second degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>Hill has been remanded into custody and will be transported back to Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Once back in Alberta, he will be brought before a Justice of the Peace regarding future court status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"28-year-old Alberta murder suspect arrested in B.C. Published 1:02 pm Monday, April 27, 2026 By Sooke News Mirror&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674,36245],"class_list":["post-632738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey","tag-vancouver-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}