GABRIOLA ISLAND, B.C. - The manhunt to find a murder suspect wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a B.C. woman on Gabriola Island, east of Nanaimo, has ended with an arrest.
RCMP confirm that 37-year-old Gabriola Island resident Jason Daniel Cramer was taken into custody without incident by a team of ERT officers early Thursday morning.
Cramer is expected to be transported to Nanaimo to make his first court appearance sometime today.
Cramer is being called a person of interest in the stabbing death of 50-year-old Elaine Schwartz. The incident also left her 18-year-old son, Trevor Schwartz, critically injured.
Nanaimo RCMP Const. Gary O'Brien says the victim was found just after 5 p.m. Wednesday in a home just south of the ferry terminal on the small Gulf Island.
Her son was found in a separate home on the same property and is being treated for life-threatening stab wounds in a Victoria hospital.
Investigators have not said what may have sparked the deadly attack.
Forensic teams from the Nanaimo RCMP are expected to spend the day examining the home.
Six years ago, Schwartz's partner, Howard McCoy, was murdered in an axe attack just down the road from the current crime scene.
McCoy's roommate pleaded guilty in the case. Schwartz spoke about the sentence at the time outside Nanaimo's courthouse.
"It was horrendous that a man gets two and a half years in jail for a very long, torturous murder. What is our world coming to?" she said.
There is no indication the two murders are connected in any way.
With files from The Canadian Press
