Jordell Sellars (Image Credit: Kamloops Crime Stoppers)

By James Peters

Williams Lake Stampede Shooting

Former suspect in 2019 homicide charged in Williams Lake Stampede shooting

Jul 4, 2022 | 4:23 PM

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — The person charged in a shooting at the Williams Lake Stampede on Sunday was a suspect in a 2019 homicide in that community.

The B.C. Prosecution Service is confirming charges of attempted murder and discharging a firearm with intent to endanger life against Jordell Anthony Sellars, 33, of Williams Lake.

Two people were injured in Sunday’s shooting at the Stampede grounds. RCMP confirmed one of the victims was targeted, while the other was an innocent bystander.

Sellars is in custody pending a July 11 court date.

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This is not Sellars’ first encounter with the criminal justice system.

In April of 2020, Sellars was arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder and kidnapping in the death of Branton Regner. Regner went missing after an August 9, 2019 incident on the Rudy Johnson Bridge in Williams Lake. His body was found in the Fraser River more than two weeks later.

In an email to CFJC Today, B.C. Prosecution Service spokesman Dan McLaughlin says charges against Sellars in Regner’s death were stayed in October of 2021.

McLaughlin says prosecutors determined the “charges against Mr. Sellars no longer met the charge assessment standard.”

Two others, Jayson Gilbert and Michael Drynock, were also charged in Regner’s killing.