Two RCMP agents appeared in a home in Dartmouth, NS, on Friday looking for a suspicious drunk driving, apparently unknown to the man they wanted to speak with had been found dead more than a year ago in a case of homicide that remains unresolved.
The incident was captured in a bell camera in the house of Leslie Sparks, mother of Tyrell Beals, and shared with CBC News.
Beals’s body was discovered last May near a road in North Preston and RCMP said the 36 -year -old man had suffered gunshot wounds. Two months ago, the Mounties issued a press release asking for help to resolve the homicide.
An RCMP spokesman rejected an interview about Friday’s incident, but said in a statement that the officers were responding to a report of a deteriorated driver in the 800 block of Sackville Drive in Lower Sackville.
In what seems to have been a case of wrong identity, they went to a home “and it was quickly determined that the individual who was sought did not reside in the direction,” according to the statement.
The suspect’s name was “similar to that of a former resident,” said the statement.
‘You can’t drive a car in heaven’
Beals’s 15 -year -old sister was at home when the police appeared. His young twin daughters were also there.
In the video, the teenager is heard asking the Mounties: “How do you have a complaint about someone who is not even alive?”
One of the officers replied: “What?”
Sparks, who was mandated, put on his daughter’s speaker to handle the questions.
“He doesn’t drive anything because you can’t drive a car in heaven,” he said.
She punished the officers for not knowing that her son was deceased.
“I don’t know who filed a complaint, but you need … you have to do things well,” he said.
‘We haven’t spent enough?’
An officer apologized for the “misunderstanding”, and said “they would tell the people who filed the complaint what is happening.”
For sparks, the apology makes no sense.
“Have we not spent enough?” Sparks said in an interview with CBC News. “You [RCMP] Just keep traumatizing me and my family again and again.
“I don’t know why you didn’t get the Memo, RCMP, but my son has been dead since last year.”
The incident at the door of his house has deepened his suspicion that the police are not making any effort to resolve the case.
“There is no research,” said Sparks. “I really think his research is just to silence me.”
