Tim Petruk
Kamloops This Week
Family members of a Shuswap man shot to death more than five years ago wept in a packed courtroom Monday as a 29-year-old man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Jordan Larry Barnes made the guilty plea in Courtroom 5B of the Kamloops Law Courts after the hearing was delayed so court staff could bring in temporary seating to accommodate spectators.
Details of the shooting, which were read in court, cannot be published pending a jury trial for Jeremy Wayne Davis, expected to get underway in late November.
Nicholas Larsen, 24, was shot dead on June 1, 2011.
At the time, police called the attack “targeted” and said it stemmed from a dispute between two groups of men. Investigators said Larson was shot while travelling as a passenger in a friend’s vehicle.
Information from RCMP at the time of the incident also indicated the shots came from another vehicle travelling on Blind Bay Road at shortly after midnight.
In July 2014, police announced the arrests of Barnes, of Mission and Davis, who hails from Williams Lake.
Davis, 26, is expected to appear in B.C. Supreme Court next week to confirm his trial dates.
-With files from the Salmon Arm Observer
Murder victim Nicholas Larsen