UPDATED 8:36 p.m. Friday

New information in a two-year-old killing had investigators poring over a wooded area in Halifax’s north end Friday afternoon.

Halifax police said a slew of officers, from canine patrol units to forensics investigators, scoured a piece of property between Union Street and Devonshire Avenue, in the hopes of finding clues to Ryan Matthew White’s murder.

White was shot in a public housing property just off Jarvis Lane in late July 2010. The 21-year-old was hit in the chest while outside in that area and died the next day in hospital.

“Recently, we received information with regard to that investigation,” Halifax Regional Police Const. Brian Palmeter said Friday.

It’s believed the information points to a weapon used in the shooting but Palmeter would not substantiate that report.

“We have officers here with metal detectors and (the canine unit) has been through there,” he said.

He would not speculate whether detectives were searching for a gun or bullets in the area.

Police said they will be “very aggressive” in laying charges in this and other cases, and won’t hesitate to charge anyone who may have helped White’s killer before or after the homicide.

“There are people who know who pulled the trigger.”

Major crime detectives have not released when the new information that led them to the property came in, Palmeter said.

Officers arrived at the scene, just below the memorial bells at Ford Needham Park, around 1:30 p.m. and were wrapping up around 3 p.m., Palmeter said.

He would not say what, if anything, investigators retrieved from the area.

A motive in the July 22 slaying wasn’t clear, but in the days afterward, police said they learned White had been involved in a dispute with another person for some time.

(ehoare@herald.ca)