Police have arrested Lawrence Opikowew and charged him with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 20-year-old Mathew Brabant in a Saskatoon motel.

Brabant was found with a gunshot wound in a motel room in the 2000 block of Avenue B North at around 5 a.m. CST on May 17, 2025. He was taken to hospital, where he died of his injuries.

At the time, a 27-year-old man was arrested and charged with murder, but Opikowew, who was wanted in connection to the shooting, remained at large with police te…