Police offer cash reward as family pleads for answers in 7-year-old Kitchener homicide case

Waterloo regional police have issued a $50,000 reward for data resulting in a conviction within the homicide of 23-year-old Gavin Daley.

Daley, who was initially from Ajax, Ont., was discovered useless inside a Westwood Drive house in Kitchener on Dec. 17, 2015. Emergency crews have been initially referred to as to the constructing for a hearth. Police say Daley’s physique had apparent indicators of trauma and a autopsy later decided he had been shot. Police imagine the dying was focused.

The killing occurred one week earlier than Christmas and one month earlier than Daley’s twenty fourth birthday.

“As his mother, excited about the day he was born and the life we now dwell with out him shatters me each single day,” Veronica Daley mentioned at a information convention Friday the place police issued the money reward.

Describing her son as beneficiant, humorous and somebody who liked unconditionally, Daley mentioned she missed him “like air.”

“Mother and father usually are not suppose to bury their youngsters and as painful as this has been it’s compounded by the truth that somebody did this on objective, they consciously determined to drag the set off and finish my baby’s life.”

Daley mentioned within the seven years since her son’s dying police have “labored tirelessly.”

“However sadly the ‘snitches get stitches’ tradition scares individuals and stops them from coming ahead,” she continued, acknowledging her son made “poor life selections” earlier than his dying.

“My household begs you to please discover a method to share what , we have to know. It’s our hope that somebody will need to clear their conscience. Holding onto data like that’s like most cancers, it should eat you up in the event you don’t let it go.”

Police investigation a murder on Westwood Drive in Kitchener on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015.

Waterloo Regional Police Service Deputy Chief Shirley Hilton mentioned 23 full-time investigators have labored on the case over time and interviewed and acquired statements from over 300 individuals.

Regardless of making quite a few appeals to the general public, the investigation is now at a standstill.

“These appeals haven’t led to the knowledge we have to transfer this investigation ahead,” Hilton mentioned.

Again in 2016, police recognized Sarah Poole and Devon Victor as individuals of curiosity within the case.

Poole was previously wished on a Canada-wide warrant for human trafficking and fraud. Victor was arrested in Toronto final yr on unrelated expenses.

“Our unit believes firmly that they’ve data that will progress this investigation ahead,” mentioned Workers Sgt. Kyle Lambert.

Daley mentioned her solely want is to get justice for her son.

“The truth that anyone will go to jail for the remainder of their life, and hopefully die in there. Yeah, that’s what I need,” Daley mentioned.

Waterloo regional police say it’s unusual to supply a money reward of this dimension and it’s solely the second time the service has posted a $50,000 reward previously decade.

Anybody who might have data is requested to name police at 519-570-9777 ext. 8191 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. Nameless suggestions can be submitted on-line at www.waterloocrimestoppers.com.