Update: Missing Yellowknife teen found “safe and sound”

Dayton Lafferty was reported missing on Oct. 27


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Dayton Lafferty was last seen on Oct. 25. (Photo courtesy of Yellowknife RCMP)

Posted By: Ian Down October 28, 2022

A missing Yellowknife teen has been found “safe and sound,” according to RCMP.

Yellowknife RCMP confirmed on Friday afternoon 16-year-old Dayton Lafferty had been found roughly one day after being reported missing.

Lafferty was last seen on the afternoon of Tuesday, Oct. 25. He was reported missing on Oct. 27. His whereabouts in the meantime and the circumstances under which he was found were not immediately reported.

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Ian Down
Ian Down is a general news reporter from the West Island of Montreal. After studying journalism and computer science at Concordia University, he came to Yellowknife in 2021, joining the CKLB team in September 2022. When not behind his desk, you can find him at a local Yellowknife poetry reading, or annoying his roommates by playing his clarinet at odd hours. Feel free to reach out with any tips or story ideas at ian.down@cklb.com, or follow him on Twitter at @IanDown1996.

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