BC RCMP are renewing their call for information on a 13-year-old homicide case in West Kelowna.
Today, Feb. 18, marks 13 years since Jeremy Snow and Tiffany Goruk were killed.
Snow, 33 at the time, and Goruk, 30, were driving in West Kelowna at about 11 p.m. on Feb. 18, 2013 when the SUV they were travelling in crashed into the side of the Terravita condo complex, careening into a lamppost along the way.
When officers arrived on scene they discovered the deaths were not due to the crash, but rather, that the two had been shot and killed.
“These homicides were senseless acts of violence, and this investigation remains a priority for the SED MCU,” stated Inspector Brent Novakoski, district senior investigating officer, with the Southeast District Major Crime Unit (SED MCU). “It is essential for the administration of Justice, and for the public at large, that those responsible be held accountable. Bringing closure to the families of Ms. Goruk and Mr. Snow is of utmost importance.”
Snow was reported to be Goruk’s boyfriend, and while she didn’t have a criminal record RCMP did confirm that Snow served time in the United States after being arrested and convicted of drug offences for his involvement in a helicopter drug smuggling operation busted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and RCMP in 2009.
The infamous anti-trafficking operation known as Operation Blade Runner began with a routine traffic stop by the Utah Highway Patrol in Salt Lake City, which ended in the seizure of 83 kilograms of cocaine and the arrest of two men—50-year-old Leonard Ferris, of Nevada, and 53-year-old Ross Legge, of Alberta.
Information from that arrest would lead to a sting that took down 24-year-old Revelstoke mountain bike enthusiast Samuel Brown, who killed himself in a suicide-proof American jail cell just days after his arrest, the Capital News reported back in 2013.
Goruk was remembered as a loving mother of two boys and her friends and family would go on to hold a memorial run in her name. However, in 2020 the “Tiffany’s Annual Angel Run” came to an end after Goruk’s mother claimed it was too hard on her children to continue.
Investigators are looking to speak with anyone who had dealings with the victims or knows of their activities in February 2013.
Anyone with information that could assist in the investigation is asked to call SED MCU at 1-877-987-8477 with file number 2013-1500.
-with files from Jen Zielinski