Cop Father Says Couple’s Double Homicide in B.C. Devastating for Two Families
New South Wales police chief inspector Stephen Fowler pauses while speaking at a RCMP news conference, in Surrey, B.C., on July 22, 2019. Fowler's son Lucas, a 23-year-old Australian who, along with his girlfriend Chynna Deese, 24, of Charlotte, N.C., were found dead in Northern British Columbia last week. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press
SURREY, B.C.—The father of an Australian man who was gunned down with his girlfriend while travelling on a remote British Columbia highway says the deaths are a tragic end to a love story between the inseparable couple.
Chief Insp. Stephen Fowler of the New South Wales Police Force said he spoke with his globe-trotting 23-year-old son Lucas Fowler within hours of his leaving on a road trip from northern B.C. with his 24-year-old American girlfriend Chynna Deese.
