The Mounties say that when officers arrived, they were confronted by a man carrying knives, and there were several failed bids to subdue him with a stun gun
MIRAMICHI, N.B. -—The chief of a New Brunswick First Nation has asked members of his community to refrain from speaking to the media about a police shooting Friday that claimed the life of a local Indigenous man, saying an independent investigation into what happened is underway.
On Friday night, the RCMP say they received a complaint about an “unwanted person” at a home near Metepenagiag, about 30 kilometres west of Miramichi. . That’s when Levi was fatally shot by an officer. He was declared dead in hospital around 9 p.m. local time. “He had his demons but he was always very friendly,” Ward said Saturday. “He never tried to harm anybody … He wasn’t some monster that they’re going to try to paint him to be.”It was the second time that a police officer had fatally shot an Indigenous person in New Brunswick in less than a month.The municipal police department later said an officer performing a wellness check allegedly encountered a woman with a knife.
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