Whitesand man’s 1992 murder solved

The 1992 murder of a Whitesand First Nation band member has been solved and the suspect charged with first degree murder.
“It was a relief for some of the families here because they never knew what ever happened, whether they had ever caught the killer,” said Whitesand Chief Allan Gustafson, explaining he received a call from an Ontario Provincial Police inspector who was looking into the case after receiving a call from the murdered man’s sister. “He looked into it and that’s when he broke the case.”
The initial investigation into the death of Lawrence Kitakijick began in 1992 when human remains were found by a passing motorist in the area of the Tecumseh monument near Thamesville in southern Ontario.
Kitakijick left his community in 1988 to find work in Tillsonburg, and later moved in with his father in London. Police believe Kitakijick was fatally shot in London near the Horton Street Bridge.
“They went tobacco picking, actually a lot of our people here went tobacco picking years ago,” Gustafson said. “The father came back in later years but he ended up passing away too.”
A DNA profile of the accused was developed through forensic testing of exhibits by the Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto.
Roshan Norouzali, a 47-year-old inmate at the Collins Bay Institute, has been arrested and is scheduled to appear Nov. 5 at the Ontario Court of Justice in London.