N.S. man charged with second-degree murder after allegedly killing victim using truck
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The RCMP has charged a Bayport, N.S. man with second-degree murder after he allegedly used a truck to run over a victim several times, killing him.
Police are not yet identifying the victim by name, but say he was a 44-year-old man from Lunenburg, N.S.
The RCMP says on Thursday, June 17 at 10:30 p.m., they responded to a report of a man who had been run over by a truck in Dublin Shore, N.S.
Police say the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
The suspect was traced to a home on Hwy. 332 in Bayport, where police say he was arrested without incident.
Terry Richard Johnson is charged with second-degree murder, and is set to appear in Lunenburg Provincial Court on June 21. He remains in police custody.
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