Jeffrey John (Jeff) Peters, 51, of Long Plain First Nation, Manitoba was a cab driver for 33 years. He "drove for all the cab companies in Vancouver" where he grew up, as well as driving cabs in Winnipeg and elsewhere in Manitoba since moving here in 2008. "Jeff was a kind, caring, loving man. Everyone felt safe around him, especially in his cab." Mr. Peters drove for Portage Shuttle, a small Portage La Prairie company owned by Kashif Razaq On Monday afternoon, May 20, 2019, Mr. Peters passed Mr. Razaq in his taxi and alerted him about two calls requiring pickups. He told Mr. Razaq that he was on his way to a third call. That was the last anyone heard from him. At about 8:20 the same evening the Portage La Prairie RCMP received a report of an "unresponsive" man lying on Road 55 West, a dirt road about 5 km (3 miles) south of MacGregor and 30 km (20 miles) west of Portage La Prairie. The police determined that Mr. Peters was the victim of homicide, but released no further details. In a social media message his daughter Linzi Clair said that all she knew was that her father was working when he was killed and that someone "robbed him and then left him for dead on a dirt road." On May 23, 2019, three days after the murder, his taxi was discovered 57 miles (91 km) away in Brandon, at the Brandon Sportsplex. The case seemed to reach a dead end until October, 2021, more than two years after the murder. On October 5, 2021, the RCMP announced that investigators had retrieved evidence from a ditch near where Mr. Peters was found, and that they were conducting an intensive search in the same area along Road 55 West and and the Trans Canada Highway. [Next column]

Jeff Peters (Source: Global News, May 23, 2019.) Then on October 7, the RCMP released security camera images from the Brandon Sportsplex which showed the taxi arriving there on the day of the murder and, shortly afterward, a man and a woman walking away from the scene. The RCMP appealed to the public for help in identifying the pair. No explanation was given for the long delay in releasing the footage. On October 27, 2021 the RCMP arrested a 16-year-old girl and six days later, on November 2, they arrested a 20-year-old man. Both were charged with murder. The RCMP acknowledged the assistance of the public and news media in effecting the arrests.