“I’m not only speaking about us, but our leaders need to step up, too”, he said to applause. “It is a slow process”.
Police say a 17-year-old has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder in a mass shooting at a school and home in western Canada.
“Investigators immediately began searching for a suspect and at 1:47 p.m. one male was taken into custody outside of the school and a firearm was secured”. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt. “One time we skipped school and hung out and we played cards for the afternoon”, said Desjarlais-Thomas.
The police arrested the 17 year-old-boy outside the school and seized his gun, about 45 minutes after being called about “an active shooter”.
“We are going to listen to the messages from this community and work with them, and work with the province, and work with First Nations organizations to do what needs to get done”.
The attack has traumatised the 3,000 inhabitants of the small lakeside community and shocked Canadians.
“It’s a travesty that this quality of life persists in this great, rich country called Canada”, Bellegarde said in an interview on Monday after a shooting spree in a remote aboriginal town last week.
As an example of the community’s isolation, Fort MacMurray, Alta., which is only about 100 kilometres west of La Loche, requires a circuitous drive of almost 10 hours.
Residents lighted candles and placed flowers at a makeshift memorial outside the school.
“I keep asking her how’s she’s doing, she keeps saying, I’m OK, I’m OK”.
Kevin Janvier said his daughter was an only child. “But am I a Canadian in a full sense?'” Coates said.
“The kids loved having her around”, Lemaigre said. “What steps will she take to guarantee that that practice will end… not just in the days and weeks ahead but in the years to come?”
Clockwise: Victims Marie Jaqueline Janvier, Adam Wood, Dayne Fontaine and Drayden Fontaine.
Sources close to the prime minister say Trudeau will travel to northern Saskatchewan to visit the community in person, although timing details were not immediately available. Even before the shooting, a crime-reduction team was dispatched to La Loche in the past year and the town’s high school underwent a violence threat assessment. They were just yelling to me. They fled the area, one racing to safety outside, the other barricading himself inside the gym change room.
Both the high school and the nearby elementary building are closed indefinitely.
Premier Brad Wall told a news conference on Saturday that suicide prevention programs were started for affected communities by the previous government and continued by his own. “Saskatchewan Education and Social Services will be available to provide all necessary crisis support and counselling services to the school and the community”.
“There’s a suicide prevention initiative specifically that government has moved on since we have been witness to some very bad numbers with respect especially youth suicides”, Wall said.
