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More than four years after six-year-old Dontay Lucas was killed, police have confirmed the two people arrested and charged on Saturday with his murder are the boy's mother, Rykel Frank, and her partner, Mitchell Frank.
“Television makes homicides look very easy [to solve]. In fact, they’re not. Four years is a long time to wait for answers and unfortunately, these things are just very complex,” says Sgt. Clayton Wiebe.
PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - RCMP say the mother and stepfather of a little boy are being held in custody on first-degree murder charges following "painstaking" efforts by police on Vancouver Island to get all the evidence to prosecutors.