A 26-year-old man charged with the first-degree murder of a Ridge Meadows Mountie last fall will be back in court next week.
On Tuesday, April 9, Port Coquitlam provincial court Judge Diana Dorey adjourned the case against Nicholas Bellemare to April 16.
Bellemare has been at North Fraser Pretrial Centre in PoCo since last September in connection with the death of Const. Frederick “Rick” O’Brien and the attempted murder of Cpl. Colin Ryder.
The officers and a third Mountie were executing a search warrant relating to a drug investigation in Maple Ridge when they were shot in a condo tower on Glen Drive in Coquitlam.
A regimental funeral for O’Brien, a father of six, on Oct. 4, 2023, drew thousands of emergency responders from across North America to the Langley Events Centre.
Details about the court case cannot be printed due to a publication ban on the hearings.
