RCMP at the Cypress Hills Drive home on April 9. Submitted photo.
Dale Boyd
Osoyoos Times
An Osoyoos man is now facing an upgraded charge of manslaughter after a 61-year-old woman died in hospital following an alleged assault inside a Cypress Hills Drive home.
Roderick Ashley Flavell, 62, is now facing a single count of manslaughter related to death of Tina Seminara, the BC Prosecution Service (BCPS) confirmed Wednesday.
Flavell’s first appearance on the new charge in court is scheduled for July 20, 2020. Flavell is currently in custody and has not yet had a bail hearing according to Dan McLaughlin, communications counsel with the BC Prosecution Service.
“As the matter remains before the court there will be no further comment from the BCPS.”
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Flavell was charged with aggravated assault on April 9, alleged to have occurred during the evening of April 8.
BC Coroners Service later confirmed the woman, later identified as Seminara, had succumb to her injuries in hospital sometime around April 17.
The RCMP investigation has been turned over to the Southeast District Major Crimes Unit in Kelowna.
