(submitted photo/Gord Cowan)

By Nigel Maxwell

Death investigation

RCMP confirm arrest in Candle Lake

Sep 27, 2019 | 5:00 PM

There are still many more questions than answers following a popular store manager’s death this week in Candle Lake.

paNOW has learned a man who knew Tom Borson was arrested hours after Borson’s death, but there has been no suggestion of a link between the two incidents. RCMP have neither confirmed nor discounted any type of foul play.

Toller Klassen, 43, was arrested Monday afternoon in the Candle Lake area. Borson’s body was found shortly before 1p.m. at the Fishing Creek Trading Post, where he lived.

According to court records, Klassen has been charged with uttering threats, break and enter, resisting arrest, and assaulting a peace officer. Klassen was released from custody on an undertaking at his last court appearance Sept. 27. A spokesperson for the RCMP told paNOW on Friday there is no evidence linking Klassen to Borson’s death.

Klassen has been scheduled to make his next court appearance in Nipawin Nov. 6. In the meantime, tributes for Tom Borson continue to pour in on his Facebook page from both his friends and family members.

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(Facebook/ Buck Borson)

Borson’s mother Glenda wrote on the page she had considered closing the Facebook account, but opted not to after seeing the comments about her son.

“I sit here at 3 in the morning. I can’t sleep and I read these wonderful tributes to him from his loving and caring friends. I hope this page stays open forever so I can visit it whenever I am sad and missing him. Thank you for the kind words and memories just does not seem enough for all the comfort I get from these posts. God Bless you all,” she wrote.

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