The RCMP has called in an outside agency to investigate the fatal shooting of a man on the God's Lake First Nation in Manitoba.
Paul Leonard Duck, 52, was carrying a gun when he was shot twice by an RCMP officer on Tuesday. Relatives say he was trying to chase away teens who had gathered at the site of a fire on the reserve.
“There’s questions. Why’d it happen? Why did the police shoot him?” Duck’s brother-in-law Tony Trout told The Winnipeg Sun.
The shooting came after a fatal house fire claimed the lives of Demus James, 73, and two great-grandchildren -- Kaylene Okemow, 3, and Tron Kirkness, 1, on Monday.
“The communities are actually very close-knit and when there’s tragedies — especially when it involves children — this is really painful,”
Ron Evans, the grand chief of the
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, told the Sun.
The Saskatoon Police Service from Saskatchewan will investigate the shooting.
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Man killed by RCMP was shot twice: autopsy
(CBC 3/16)
Northern man shot twice, autopsy shows (The Winnipeg Free Press 3/17)
Kin ask why man shot (The Winnipeg Sun 3/17)
God’s Lake fire ruled accidental (Global Winnipeg 3/17)
RCMP confirm three dead in house fire (The Winnipeg Sun 3/17)
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