North Bay police say they have re-arrested a suspect in a January 1 murder for breaking his release order.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon officers arrested and charged Ghislain Nsengiyumva with "Breach of Release Order" just a few hours after he was released by a judge from the North Bay Courthouse on bail today.
Nsengiyumva is a male, age 20, from Orleans, near Ottawa.
Police arrested him in the killing of 29-year-old North Bay resident Jeff Twain and the assault of two adult women on January 1 this year.
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Back on January 2, members of the North Bay Police Service arrested and charged Nsengiyumva with:
- Second-degree murder
- Utter threat to cause death
- Assault with a weapon
- Two counts of assault
Police say after his release, Nsengiyumva violated his bail conditions and was later re-arrested on the breach of a release order
Nsengiyumva will be held in custody pending another bail hearing at the North Bay Courthouse.
Police did not say what the breach entailed.
It was shortly after 2:30 a.m. New Year's morning that North Bay Police and Nipissing Paramedic Services responded to the 1100 block of Jane Street regarding a person in need of medical help.
Police found the victim on the side of Jane Street, next to a snowbank. He was rushed by ambulance to the North Bay Regional Health Centre where he was pronounced dead.
Police said at the time that an argument turned violent when a man assaulted two adult females then left a party at a Gormanville St. home. Gormanville intersects Jane St.
