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Alberta’s police watchdog has concluded the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Indigenous boy south of Edmonton wasn’t criminal, and two RCMP officers who fired shots won’t be charged.
The teen, who family members identified as Hoss Lightning, was killed in Wetaskiwin, Alta., early on the morning of Aug. 30, 2024.
Lightning was a member of Samson Cree Nation in the community of Maskwacis, a little less than 20 kilometres south of the city where he was shot.
His killing shook his community, and became one of several deaths of Indigenous people caused by police that sparked calls for a national inquiry.
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