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Human remains found near Highway 7 on June 4, have been identified as 31-year-old Chad Romanski of Saskatoon.
Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) said in a news release on June 9 that Romanski’s death is being treated as a homicide, the city’s fifth of 2025.
650 CKOM has confirmed with friends and family that the missing person from May 13th, 2025, is the same as that mentioned in the Saskatoon Police Service’s news release. However, when 650 CKOM asked police to confirm the missing person’s file number, they declined to comment.
Anyone with information is asked to contact SPS at (306) 975-8300 or to inform Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or at saskcrimestoppers.com.
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Saskatoon Homicides of 2025
Saskatoon’s first homicide of 2025 occurred on Jan. 20 when a 23-year-old man was found by police suffering from multiple stab wounds at a business in the 3900 block of Millar Avenue.
SPS arrested a 53-year-old man near 2nd Avenue South and Spadina Crescent East and charged him with first-degree murder.
The city’s second homicide was on April 20, when officers were called to an apartment building in the city’s Holiday Park neighbourhood, where a man was found dead just after noon on Easter Sunday. No arrests have been made.
The third murder recorded was on May 17, when a 20-year-old man was shot at a motel in the 2000 block of Avenue B North, believed to be Riviera Motor Inn, around 5 a.m. on May 17.
Police charged a 27-year-old man with first-degree murder and were looking for a second “armed and dangerous” suspect whom they named as 26-year-old Lawrence Opikowew, in connection with the shooting.
The fourth homicide of the year happened just a day later on May 18, when police were called to Avenue B South and Spadina Crescent around 11 p.m. after receiving a report of a person suffering from a stab wound. A 43-year-old man was taken to the hospital, where he later died.
Saskatoon saw 15 homicides in 2024.
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