Just over 700 people lived in the municipality of McCreary as of 2021, according to that year's census. Scott said the community — 250 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg — is a tight-knit place.

Ste Rose du Lac RCMP responded to a call on Road 84 West in the municipality of McCreary at 10:10 a.m. Friday, police said at a press conference Friday afternoon.

When John Scott heard on the radio Friday that four people were found dead near the community McCreary, Man., and three of those deaths were being investigated as homicides, he couldn't believe what ...