Charges Laid in Nanaimo Mill Shooting That Killed Two

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Authorities have confirmed to have charged the 47-year-old former mill worker, Kevin Douglas Addison, who is suspected to have shot four people at the Western Forest Products sawmill on Wednesday morning, killing two men. The Nanaimo man is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder by telebail on Wednesday night and is set to appear in Nanaimo Provicial Court this morning.

Nanaimo RCMP have confirmed the two men who died are 61-year-old Michael John Lunn and 53-year-old Fred James McEachern. Addison allegedly opened fire at the Western Forest Products sawmill in Nanaimo on Wednesday morning, shooting one man in the parking lot and three more in the sawmill office. Sources confirm that the suspect is a former employee of the mill and is in custody at the Nanaimo RCMP detachment.  Nanaimo RCMP confirmed to have received multiple 911 calls at 6:58 a.m., after which an emergency-response team member arrived at the scene within three minutes arrested the gunman peacefully.

Lunn’s family members have confirmed that he was an employee with Western Forest Products since 1980. His sister, Linda Bledsoe, alleged that “all they would tell us at the police department, we had to go down there, [was] that he had passed.” She added that “he died at the scene” and “It’s just … it’s unexplainable.” Sharing that Lunn was the only boy in a family of seven sisters, Bledsoe alleged that “we were all very close” and “none of us are feeling anything right now.”