By Moira Warburton
TORONTO, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Two teenage Canadian fugitives who were the subject of a nationwide manhunt took their own lives with gunshots, police said on Monday following the completion of an autopsy report.
Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, were suspected of murdering three people in northern British Columbia. Their bodies were found by police on Aug. 7 near Gillam, Manitoba, after a two-week search.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the autopsy could not determine how long McLeod and Schmegelsky had been dead. But there were "strong indications" they were alive for at least a few days after the last sighting of them on July 22, and during the intensive search for them in the Gillam area.
The two were charged with second-degree murder in July of Leonard Dyck, 64, a botany lecturer at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. They were also suspects in the murders of Chynna Deese, 24, of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Lucas Fowler, 23, from Sydney, Australia.