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City police are reiterating their plea for the public’s help in locating a man who fled house arrest while awaiting trial in a 2013 swarming death.

Nathan Paul Gervais, 21, of Calgary was charged with first-degree murder in the homicide of 18-year-old Lukas Strasser-Hird the morning of Nov. 23, 2013.

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Gervais was placed under 24-hour house arrest while awaiting trial, which is scheduled for early May.

Insp. Don Coleman with the Calgary Police Service’s major crimes section said officers had been doing regular random checks on Gervais to make sure he was complying with the court order.

But when police went to check on him at his home Saturday morning, he was nowhere to be found and investigators have been unable to locate him since. It’s not known whether he is still in Calgary.

“We had been pursuing him through other investigative avenues and did not want to compromise those by releasing his information earlier. However, now we’re at a point in our search where we require the public’s assistance in locating Nathan,” Coleman said.