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Remote Canada aboriginal community reeling after 4 shot dead
Jan 23,`16 ) -- A remote aboriginal community in western Canada was left reeling from the unimaginable after a gunman opened fire at a school and a home, killing four people, including a teacher, and severely wounding at least two others.
Remote Canada aboriginal community reeling after 4 shot dead
Jan 23,`16 ) -- A remote aboriginal community in western Canada was left reeling from the unimaginable after a gunman opened fire at a school and a home, killing four people, including a teacher, and severely wounding at least two others.
Residents placed candles and flowers in the snow in a makeshift memorial outside the grade 7-to-12 La Loche Community School in the Dene aboriginal community of La Loche in Saskatchewan Province. La Loche is a town of 3,000 where everybody seems to know each other. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Supt. Maureen Levy said the gunman was arrested outside the school Friday but declined to release details about him. She said there were two crime scenes, one at a home and the other at the school. Levy said four people were killed, but declined to give their ages or sex.
The teacher killed at the school was identified by her boyfriend and father as 23-year-old Marie Janvier. 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. "I grew up not a good guy, but she turned me right," Park told The Associated Press. "She was that much of a great person to turn me right from all the wrongdoings I used to do. ... She was a fantastic person." "I loved her, I really did," said Park, who remembered her smile and how she would blush when she was happy.
Her father, Kevin Janvier, said police told him the gunman first shot two of his siblings before killing his daughter, his only child. "He shot two of his brothers at his home and made his way to the school," he said. "I'm just so sad." A government official, however, said the gunman shot two boys who are related but not his brothers at a home before heading to the school. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk publicly about the investigation.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said he had been advised of the shooting by the RCMP. He said two wounded people were in critical condition. "Obviously, this is every parent's worst nightmare," Trudeau said. "The community is reeling." A student who was just returning from lunch when the shots were fired Friday said his friends ran past him urging him to get out. "'Run, bro, run!" Noel Desjarlais-Thomas, 16, recalled his friends saying to him as they fled La Loche's junior and senior high school. "There's a shotgun! There's a shotgun! They were just yelling to me. And then I was hearing those shots too, so of course I started running."
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