Yellowknife RCMP locate missing woman

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An RCMP patrol vehicle. (CKLB file photo.)

Posted By: John McFadden May 23, 2019

About an hour after RCMP in Yellowknife reported a missing woman, she has been found safe.

In a news release issued over the noon hour Thursday, police stated that they were looking for 19-year-old Heidi Kamookak of Taloyoak, Nunavut.

Police stated that she was last seen Wednesday near the Larga Kititmeot residence on Franklin Avenue near the Centre for Northern Families.

A little after 1:00 pm Thursday police stated she’d been found safe and thanked the public.

As is their policy – RCMP have not said where she was located nor where she had been

Larga Kitikmeot is a residence which provides a safe home for Inuit people travelling from the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut for medical services.

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John McFadden
John has been in the broadcast journalism industry since the 1980s. He has been a reporter in Yellowknife since 2012 and joined CKLB in January of 2018. John covers the crime and court beat as well as reporting on other areas including politics, business, entertainment and sports. He won seven national community newspaper awards while he was a journalist with Northern News Services Limited (NNSL). John worked in Ontario before coming North including stints as a TV sportscaster in Peterborough and senior news writer for CBC and CTV in downtown Toronto.