First-degree murder charge for 16-year-old in Copper Mug homicide

The Saskatoon Police Service arrested a 16-year-old boy and charged him with First Degree Murder on Dec. 4 after a homicide at the Copper Mug in November.

He will make his first appearance in court on December 5, according to the police news release.

This is the second person charged in the homicide investigation of 20-year-old Jordanna Kucher on November 15.

The Saskatoon Police Service has charged a 36-year-old female with first-degree murder in relation to the city’s 13th homicide.

This was the city’s first homicide of the year on the east side of the river.

Police are still asking for help from anyone who has dash cam video from their vehicle of November 15, “travelling westbound in the 1300 Block of 8th Street East from 6:15 pm to 6:45 pm.”

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The teen was convicted of second-degree murder, and on Aug. 7, 2025, he was sentenced to serve three and a half years in secure custody, followed by six months in open custody and will then be under community supervision for three years. Additionally, he is prohibited from possessing firearms or weapons.

Saskatoon has seen 14 homicides in 2024, tying it with 2020 for the third-highest year for homicides since 1981.

The homicide victims’ ages range from one year to 66.

A 37-year-old man died later in hospital from his injuries. Police believe the suspect, a 45-year-old man who’s been charged with manslaughter and the victim knew each other. (Google Maps/Céline Grimad/650CKOM)

Saskatoon Homicides of 2024

The year’s first homicide was on Feb. 3 in the Pacific Heights neighbourhood when a 25-year-old Alberta man was found dead in a home on Lisgar Avenue. Two people have been charged.

The second was on Feb. 10 when a 48-year-old man was shot to death in Saskatoon’s Caswell Hill neighbourhood. One man was arrested.

On Feb. 17, a 48-year-old man was killed at a home on Avenue I South after being shot in the third homicide of the year. Two people have been arrested.

A man has been charged in the stabbing death of a 35-year-old Saskatoon on Feb. 19 in the city’s fourth homicide.

The fifth also happened the same day, when two boys aged 12 and 13 were charged in the weapons-related death of another 12-year-old boy in the Massey Place neighbourhood.

A 1-year-old boy was the victim in the city’s sixth homicide in the 100 block of Avenue T South on March 9. A woman has been charged.

Saskatoon’s seventh murder was on April 15 when Melissa Duquette, 24, was found dead in the basement of a house in the Dundonald neighbourhood. Two people have been charged.

The eighth homicide, also on April 15 is unsolved after a 25-year-old man was shot in the Pleasant Hill neighbourhood.

The following day, April 16, a 30-year-old man died in hospital after being injured on April 15. No one has been arrested.

On June 3, the city’s 10th homicide was recorded in the 800 block of 22nd Street West when Glen Lennie, 29, was stabbed. Two people have been charged.

The 11th murder in the city happened on June 12 when Harvey Zoerb, 66, was killed near Fairhaven Elementary School.

Two people were charged in Saskatoon’s 12th homicide of 2024 after 30-year-old Jordan Lee Morin was killed on Aug. 16 in Riversdale.

Saskatoon’s 13th murder was a 20-year-old woman who was found dead in the Copper Mug parking lot on November 15.

A 37-year-old man was murdered in Caswell Hill on Nov. 17 was Bridge City’s 14th homicide of 2024.

Editor’s note: Details about the teenagers’ sentencing were added on Aug. 28, 2025.