Jordan Rodney Gamble was charged in 2024, four years after Thomas, 23, was found dead in a home in the 400 block of Avenue G South.
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For the second time this month, a first-degree murder charge has been stayed in connection with a Saskatoon homicide.
Instead of having a preliminary hearing as scheduled in Saskatoon provincial court, Jordan Rodney Gamble had his charge stayed on June 13 in connection with the 2020 homicide of 23-year-old Eagleson Thomas.
As a result, Gamble, 42, is no longer accused in Thomas’s death.
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Gamble was charged with first-degree murder last May, four years after Thomas was found dead in a boarded-up home in the 400 block of Avenue G South on Sept. 15, 2020. He’d been reported missing five days earlier.
The Riversdale neighbourhood house where his body was found had been intentionally set on fire on Aug. 22, 2020, according to police. Eagleson was last seen alive on Aug. 14.
Police said investigators with the guns and gangs unit were informed that an injured or deceased person may be inside the home.
Thomas’s aunt told the StarPhoenix that her family was repeatedly directed to the house by people who gave them tips during their search for him. Missing persons posters with Thomas’s photo had been posted nearby.
On June 20, first-degree murder charges were stayed against three men accused in the death of 24-year-old Melissa Duquette, whose body was found in the basement of a 33rd Street home on April 15, 2024.
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Kevin Gerald Keenatch, 24, Kendell Dre Gordon Ameech, 29, and Sundance Okemaysim, 34, were charged last year. The Crown said it could no longer proceed with the case because there wasn’t a reasonable likelihood of conviction.
Although rare, charges can be re-laid, if new information warrants it, within a year after a stay is entered.
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