No charges recommended against officer who fatally shot Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation

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· Posted: Apr 08, 2025 1:34 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Manitoba's constabulary watchdog is not recommending charges against a constabulary serviceman progressive successful a shooting that killed a 27-year-old antheral successful Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation astir a twelvemonth ago.

On April 20, 2024, Amaranth RCMP officers received a telephone for assistance from the Manitoba First Nations Police Service successful Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation, the Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba (IIU) said successful a caller study Tuesday. 

Police said they were called to a location connected Ridge Road S. successful the First Nation, located connected the occidental shore of Lake Manitoba, pursuing reports of a antheral with a limb threatening a woman. 

The antheral wasn't astatine the location erstwhile officers arrived but was recovered successful an outdoor country successful the community, the IIU study says.

Police told investigators that the serviceman who spotted the antheral chased him into a marsh, wherever the serviceman was heard telling the antheral to driblet the weapons. The serviceman past changeable the man.

Police provided archetypal aid, but the antheral was pronounced dormant astatine the scene. 

The watchdog gathered accusation from the progressive officer, 3 witnesser officers and 9 civilian witnesses during the astir year-long investigation. 

In the last report, Bruce M. Sychuk, the IIU's acting civilian director, wrote the progressive officer's usage of deadly unit was "authorized and justified by law" and "there are nary tenable grounds" to enactment charges against him. 

The IIU says the probe is present implicit and has closed the case. 

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