{"id":4432,"date":"2025-10-30T01:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/two-men-charged-with-murder-in-2023-meadow-lake-shooting-death\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:20:29","slug":"two-men-charged-with-murder-in-2023-meadow-lake-shooting-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/two-men-charged-with-murder-in-2023-meadow-lake-shooting-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men charged with murder in 2023 Meadow Lake shooting death"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-58075\">\n<div>\n<header>      <\/header>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/thegitchemanitou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/58075-two-men-charged-with-murder-in-2023-meadow-lake-shooting-death.jpg\" alt=\"two-men-charged-with-murder-in-2023-meadow-lake-shooting-death\" decoding=\"async\"><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span>Two men charged with murder in 2023 Meadow Lake shooting death<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>SaskatchewanKenneth Fiddler, 23, was found seriously injured after a shooting was reported at a business in the early morning of July 18, 2023.  Creeson Merasty, 31, and Gerald Sinclair, 39, were already incarcerated in Alberta, RCMP sayCBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Oct 29, 2025 7:20 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 1 minuteThe arrests cap off a two-and-a-half-year investigation by the RCMP Major Crimes Unit. Two men who were already incarcerated in Alberta were arrested on Wednesday in connection with a 2023 homicide in Meadow Lake.Creeson Merasty, 31, and Gerald Sinclair, 39, are each charged with one count of second-degree murder. Both were in custody for unrelated offenses.The arrests cap off a two-and-a-half-year investigation by the RCMP Major Crimes Unit into the death of 23-year-old Kenneth Fiddler of Meadow Lake, 340 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon.Police said they received a report of a shooting at a business in the community in the early morning of July 18, 2023. Officers arrived to find Fiddler seriously injured. He later died in hospital.RCMP said a court date for Merasty and Sinclair to appear on the murder charges has not been determined.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men charged with murder in 2023 Meadow Lake shooting death SaskatchewanKenneth Fiddler, 23, was found seriously injured after a shooting was reported at a business in the early morning of July 18, 2023. Creeson Merasty, 31, and Gerald Sinclair, 39, were already incarcerated in Alberta, RCMP sayCBC News \u00b7 Posted: Oct 29, 2025 7:20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,123,1],"tags":[116,122],"class_list":["post-4432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-saskatchewan","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-saskatchewan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}