A 40-year-old Ontario man with a long criminal history has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the slaying of Tori Dunn in Surrey, B.C., earlier this month.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says Adam Mann is facing the murder charge after Surrey police found him while they were on their way to Dunn’s home on June 16.
At the time of Dunn’s killing, Mann was facing an unrelated aggravated assault charge for an alleged attack in Surrey three weeks earlier and is due in court over that case on July 2.
Police say they found Dunn with life-threatening injuries after being called to her home.
Dunn’s father Aaron posted on Facebook days after she was killed that his daughter was the victim of a home invasion.
Investigators say Mann remains in custody.
Police say the investigation continues into the “tragic event” that “has shaken the entire community.”
During a news conference on Monday, B.C. Premier David Eby shared that the Dunn family is right to ask questions about why the suspect was out on bail while he awaited trial for an unrelated offence. Eby shared that it is “unacceptable” that the suspect was not held in custody.
“[It] makes people feel that they shouldn’t have confidence in our justice system, that the justice system is not keeping people safe,” Eby said.
“Here’s a situation where someone was arrested for a crime, charges were approved by Crown Counsel, [it] went to court and that individual was seeking to be released back into [the public] he waited for trial. The Crown said, ‘Judge, please don’t do this. Please don’t release this person back into the community,’ and the judge made the decision to release this person back into the community where he’s alleged to have committed another horrific crime,” Eby claimed.
Files from Charlie Carey were used in this report