Tyler Grant Manchur pled guilty in February 2024. He was drunk as a skunk and drove his truck through a Kelowna homeless camp flattening a tent and pinning a 50-year-old man underneath his vehicle. At first he claimed he was drugged. CCTV footage from inside the Liquid Zoo night club showed he was there for nearly three hours and "consumed approximately 11 ounces of liquor, four beers, and... inhaled an unknown substance into his right nostril." He then got into his 2019 Dodge Ram 1500 truck and at about 2 a.m. plowed through a chainlink fence at Ethel Street, and drove through the homeless camp along the Okanagan Rail Trail.
"I have zero memory of anything before midnight," Tyler Grant Manchur, 30, told Castanet. That might be true, he blew a breathalyzer twice the legal limit.
Manchur was charged with impaired driving causing bodily harm and one count of driving while prohibited. A homeless man was dragged 100 feet while inside his tent and sustained serious injuries. He later died.
Manchur says he lives in Kelowna but travels back and forth between B.C. and Alberta. This explains why he had bogus Alberta insurance. He was also busted for impaired in Alberta. His excuses included Asperger's and Tourette syndrome.
