On Aug. 20, 2017, just after 5 a.m., the Surrey RCMP received a report of an altercation in the 6900-block of 127A Street. Police arrived to find 19-year-old Tanner Krupa dead in a back alleyway and determined he was the victim of homicide.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) has taken over the investigation and is working with the Surrey RCMP, the BC Coroner’s Service, and the Integrated Forensic Identification Section (IFIS).
Krupa is from Edmonton and graduated from Archbishop O’Leary High School. He had started working as a directional driller and was saving money for university where he planned to study kinesiology.
Tanner was offered a job in Surrey to work for a company laying fibre-optic lines. Three days into his job, he was murdered.
In the hopes that someone with information about Tanner’s murder will come forward, his family and friends created a website to tell his story . The website can be found at www.whathappenedtotanner.com.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the IHIT information line at 1-877-551- IHIT (4448), or by email at ihitinfo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca.
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