By Ryan Young
Feb 4, 2021 6:39 PM
Lynn Lake RCMP say foul play is not suspected, but they continue investigating the death of a 37 year old man.
He and a 25 year old had set out for Pukatawagan on snowmobile February 1st, but never arrived.
As a search was getting underway, the 25 year old was found with severe hypothermia symptoms, and was taken to hospital.
Further up the trail searchers found the body of the 37 year old with the snowmobile.
He’s been identified as Johnson Bighetty of Black Sturgeon Falls.
Officers found a man walking along a roadway who turned out to be the younger of the two missing persons. He displayed symptoms of severe hypothermia and was taken to hospital for treatment. The man told officers that the 37-year-old had continued towards Pukatawagan when he decided to walk back towards Lynn Lake. Continuing down the trail, RCMP met up with the search party from Pukatawagan, which had located the other man, identified as Johnson Bighetty of Black Sturgeon Falls, dead, along with the snowmobile. No criminality is suspected in Bighetty’s death but Lynn Lake RCMP and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner continue to investigate while autopsy results are pending.