Investigators with the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit (VIIMCU) continue to seek new information in the 2021 homicide of 49-year-old Jeremy Gordaneer in Victoria.
Police have released a timeline of Gordaneer’s final hours in a renewed request for information.
At about 5 am on Aug. 31, 2021, VicPD officers were called to Gordaneer’s mother’s residence in the 1000-block of Carberry Gardens.
Officers attended, along with paramedics, and located Gordaneer inside the residence suffering from life-threatening injuries.
Officers and BCEHS paramedics provided emergency first aid, however, he sadly died from his injuries.
VIIMCU investigators continue to build a timeline of the events leading up to his death.
Gordaneer was living in Edmonton at the time of his murder and arrived in Victoria to visit family on Aug. 28, 2021.
On Aug. 30, at about 5 pm, he went out for dinner with his daughters at a restaurant in downtown Victoria. He then stopped at a pub in the 1100-block of Government Street.
From there, Jeremy walked north on Fort Street back to his mother’s home on Carberry Gardens.
Jeremy was last seen outside of the residence at 7:51 pm that evening.
No arrests have been made.
“We are thankful to all of those who came forward with information over the past three years,” said VIIMCU investigator Cst. Elyse Patten.
“The investigation continues, and we are once again asking those with information, who have yet to speak with police, anyone who may have seen a suspicious vehicle or person in the area of the 1000-block of Carberry Gardens in the early morning hours on Aug. 31, 2021, to please contact us.”
In 2022, Jeremy Gordaneer’s family, including his sister, Alisa, and his daughters, Clea and Sylvie, made a video in which they shared stories about Gordaneer and how the loss has impacted them, in hopes that someone will come forward.
“I think we’re really hoping for some answers. Someone took our dad away, so we just really want to know what happened and why we don’t get to have a dad anymore,” Clea says in the video.
Jeremy’s sister said he was a talented painter and sculpture artist, as well as the person she could always count on.
“I could call him any time day or night and I knew that he would pick up and whatever was going on he’d be there for me,” said Alisa. “I’ve been in so much pain and so much mystery for the last number of months and it’s turned my life completely upside down and I don’t really know how to exist in this world without Jeremy. There’s a huge void.”
“I have a feeling that whoever did this is probably in a lot of pain themselves, and I don’t know what led them to be in a position where they could do anything like that but I do know that I would like to have some information from them and I would like to know their story and understand what happened and what their pain was,” Alisa added.
“I miss calling him. He would help me learn to draw and I would call and would spend time just walking me through it,” recalled Sylvie.
If you have information about this homicide, please call VIIMCU directly at (250) 380-6211.
