UPDATE: Sudden death investigation being treated as homicide

Police are now able to confirm Ivan ACHNEEPINESKUM 21, of Marten Falls, as the victim of the homicide investigation.

If anyone had any interaction with Ivan on, or shortly prior to, Saturday, Dec. 24, please contact the Thunder Bay Police Service at (807) 684-1200, or submit tips anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477, online at www.p3tips.com.

If you have home, business or dash cam footage you believe could be helpful to investigators, and you were not already approached by police canvassing the area, please contact police as soon as possible.

Previous release follows:

Police are treating the sudden death of a male, whose body was discovered Christmas Eve at a southside hotel, as a homicide.

Thunder Bay Police Service officers with the Primary Response Unit were dispatched to multiple addresses in the afternoon hours of Saturday, Dec. 24, to locate a male who family had not heard from.

As a result, a deceased 21-year-old male from Marten Falls was located in a hotel room at the Kingsway Inn.

Members of the Thunder Bay Police Service’s Major Crimes and Forensic Identification Units became involved in the ongoing investigation.

Police are treating the death as a homicide, and a post-mortem is pending and will take place in Toronto.

If you have any information that could assist investigators please call police at (807) 684-1200, you can submit tips anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477, online at www.p3tips.com.