Four dead as youth charged in gun rampage

The teen charged in connection with Friday’s shooting that left four people dead in northern Saskatchewan is due to appear in court today. St. Germaine says officers pursued the male further into the school. She said there were two crime scenes, one at a home and the other at the school.

Residents are caught between traditional and modern worlds, giving rise to “unimaginable” social problems that are symptoms of the loss of identity, said Ken Coates, director of the International Centre for Northern Governance and Development at the University of Saskatchewan.

“On this sad day the whole country grieves with the people of La Loche and of Saskatchewan”, he said.

The mother of Jackie Janvier told CNN news ” I had been texting her, asking her baby are you okay is everything alright but she didn’t text back she didn’t call me nothing”. “She was that much of a great person to turn me right, from all the wrongdoings I used to do…” “He was a normal boy”, said Perry Herman, who knows the teenager’s family. He said that like a couple times, ‘ ” said Janvier. “I feel truly blessed to say that he was my friend”.

A teacher and an aide were among those killed in the shooting. He said she was kind and patient with children and planned to get her teaching degree someday.

A second victim was identified as Adam Wood, a new teacher at the school. Neither boy could describe what form the teasing took, other than recalling jokes were made or people would act “tough” toward him.

Wood began teaching in La Loche last September, CTV reported.

The grandfather of the boys killed said he can’t believe his “two babies” are dead. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk publicly about the investigation.

The attack had been condemned by the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from Switzerland, and said that the alleged shooter is in the custody. Seven other people injured in the shooting had been hospitalized, Butterworth-Carr said. “The community is reeling”.

Deegan Park, her boyfriend of three years, said he would have given up the rest of his life just to spend another year with her. “There’s a shotgun! There’s a shotgun! And then I was hearing those shots too, so of course I started running”. A nearby elementary school was also placed on lockdown as a precaution.

Chatlain said the victims’ families need time to work through what has happened and the family of the accused should not face blame. There have been many mass shootings at American schools in recent years.

Desjarlais-Thomas and another friend, George Janvier, were both inside La Loche Community School on Friday when gunfire broke out.

Bobby Cameron, chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, expressed his reaction to the tragedy. “While the lockdown was happening, you could just hear all these gunshots getting closer, [then] getting distant”.

She says the government is committed to ensuring the school is part of the community’s healing process.

“He noted that, quite tragically, the United States has more experience”, Wall said.