Suspect in 2022 Quebec murder arrested in B.C.

A man wanted for a 2022 murder in Quebec was arrested in B.C. after police searched a home in Burnaby.
Lee Van Smat Germain was wanted on an outstanding warrant in connection with the May 11, 2022 homicide of Sébastien Giroux in Montréal, a July 21 release from B.C.’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit says.
He was one of three people charged in connection with Giroux’s death on Jan. 22, 2026, police said. The other two were arrested at the time, but Germain remai