Kanatakon homicide suspect in U.S. Marshals' custody pending December extradition hearing

UPDATE:

The man arrested in connection with an August homicide in Kanatakon is being held by U.S. marshals pending the outcome of an extradition hearing.

Victor Lazore is scheduled to go in front of Magistrate Judge Gary L. Favro on Dec. 19.

Lazore is represented by attorney Dennis B. Schlenker of Albany. Assistant U.S. Attorney Katherine Kopita is representing the United States government in the matter.

The case has been moving through the federal court since Sept. 26, according to documents available on Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER).

Lazore was arrested Aug. 16 after St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Police searched a St. Regis Road residence and ended up charging him with a felony count of third-degree criminal possession of marijuana.

Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service had issued a Canada-wide warrant for Lazore's arrest in connection with the Aug. 11 murder of Jeffery Allen Lazore-Arquette, 58.

Police have not said the relationship, if any, between the victim and alleged killer.

An AMPS news release says the Akwesasne Central Dispatch received a phone call requesting an ambulance to attend Lazore-Arquette's residence in in Kana:takon (St. Regis, Quebec). The Akwesasne Mohawk Ambulance Service and the Akwesasne Mohawk Police attended the residence.

Uniformed patrol officers entered the residence and found the male victim inside "suffering from an unknown injury," AMPS said. Paramedics tended to him and transported him to the Cornwall Community Hospital. The AMPS secured the area and the Sûreté Du Quebec Forensic Identification Unit was called to assist with processing the scene, AMPS said.

Lazore-Arquette succumbed to his injuries in the afternoon of August 11, 2019 at the Ottawa General Hospital, AMPS said. On Tuesday, Aug. 13, members of the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service attended the Ottawa General Hospital for the postmortem autopsy examination. Preliminary findings confirmed the death to be caused by a gunshot wound, according to the AMPS release.

In the latest update, according CBC news on late Wednesday, October 16, 2019, Victor Lazore’s girlfriend Misha Caldwell claims Lazore is being framed for the killing of his cousin because of ‘his vulnerability and mental health issues’.

According to CBS Caldwell stated, "I feel like Victor is being scapegoated for it... He has a bad reputation up here, but to kill somebody? There is no way, there is no way. He has basically said he knows that he is not guilty of it. He knows he's going to be the scapegoat and he's being railroaded for it."

According to CBC, ‘Caldwell said Lazore was with her on the nights of Aug. 10 and 11. She said he didn't leave the house until the late afternoon of Aug. 11 after he received a message informing him of his cousin's death. Caldwell said Lazore then went on a drinking and drug binge, disappearing for three days’ and remains in regular communication with Victor Lazore’.