Tyrell Peter Dechamp to stay behind bars after missing curfew

A maximum security offender sought by Halifax Regional Police following three fatal shootings in the spring will remain behind bars until another review of his case is heard.

Tyrell Peter Dechamp, 26, is serving a sentence of five years, four months, for second degree murder and aggravated assault.

Dechamp was released from prison on statutory release last February, after serving two-thirds of his sentence. The Parole Board of Canada revoked Dechamp's statutory release on Aug. 4.

'Reverted to negative' choices

In its decision, the parole board said that Dechamp being unlawfully at large and knowingly being outside of his release area "speaks to the difficulty of monitoring and managing him in the community."

"It is also consistent with your criminal history of being unlawfully at large and your numerous breaches of undertakings," the board said.

"You have reverted to negativebehavioural patterns and choices inclusive of being a person of interest in new criminal activity."

On April 20, police issued a Canada-wide warrant for Dechamp for being unlawfully at large after he failedto return to his Halifax halfway house the night before.

Missed curfew night Naricho Clayton died

Dechamp failed to meet his 11 p.m. curfew on the night Naricho Clayton was shot dead on Gottingen Street. Clayton was one of three men shot to death within two weeks.

Dechamp remained on the lam until Ontario Provincial Police arrested him in Ottawa on April 28.

Not charged in shooting

Dechamp has not been charged in any of the homicides, and police have not said whether Dechamp is a suspect or a person of interest in any of the shootings.

"The last I knew he was still in federal custody in Ontario and I haven't had any updates on that," Halifax Regional Police Const. Dianne Woodworth said Monday. "He's not back here, to my knowledge."

• Tyrell Peter Dechamp's violent past includes murder, assault convictions

Murder, assault convictions

Dechamp was convicted of murder in 2009 for the Oct. 15, 2007, stabbing death of Matthew James Ayre on Gottingen Street in Halifax.

He was sentenced under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Due to his age, his identity was protected at the time.

However, his identity became publicin2012 for an aggravated assault he committed as an adult.

In October 2011, Dechamp sucker-punched a woman who intervened in an argument at a downtown nightclub. The woman fell to the floor, hit her head and was knocked unconscious. She was hospitalized for two weeks for serious head and brain injuries.