A Pickering, Ont., man accused in a 2019 double homicide in Brantford walked out of a Thunder Bay jail Wednesday night after the province says he was mistakenly released.

But police arrested Kareem Zedan, 22, in Thunder Bay just after 2 p.m. Thursday.

He is being held at the Thunder Bay police headquarters until his court date on April 3.

More charges are pending, police spokesman Scott Paradis said.

Zedan was initially arrested in Thunder Bay on March 24 and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Larry Reynolds and his wife, Lynn Van Every, at their Brantford home on the morning of July 18, 2019.

Kristy Denette, a spokesperson for the Ministry of the Solicitor General, said Thursday that Zedan was released “in error.” Thunder Bay police earlier said that Zedan had escaped from jail.

“Any improper release of an inmate is unacceptable and the ministry takes these matters very seriously,” Denette said in an email to The Expositor.

When he was 19, Zedan was arrested in Sudbury when he and two other men were found in vehicle with cocaine.

Van Every and Reynolds were shot to death at their Park Road South home by a masked gunman who is seen in a video released by Brantford police running to and from their home.

The couple were acting as sureties for their son, Roger Van Every, who was under a form of house arrest and ordered to live with his parents after he had been charged in a June 2018 drug raid in Jerseyville. He and three others faced multiple drug charges, along with a charge of possession of stolen property over $5,000.

Those charges were eventually dropped against Van Every when one of his co-accused – Jassem Jassem – took responsibility for the drugs. Jassem was sentenced on those charges and others from a major Niagara drug raid, and was sent to prison.

Roger Van Every pleaded guilty to two breaches of his bail conditions and was sentenced to time already served. He walked out of court a free man on Jan. 14.

But, in February, Brantford police said Van Every and a second man, Hajjad Hossain Idrish, 22, of Hamilton, were suspects in the Feb. 8 shooting death of a 42-year-old Brantford man at the Galaxy Motel on Colborne Street East.

Idrish was arrested in London on Feb. 14 and Van Every was arrested in northern Ontario on Feb. 20.

Both men are charged with murder, two counts of attempted murder with a firearm and conspiracy to commit murder.

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