Sergeant says slain Quebec teenager holding air pistol was perceived as threat
A Quebec provincial police sergeant told a coroner’s inquest Tuesday that he became uncomfortable as an armed 17-year-old advanced toward officers in the early morning of July 25, 2018., who was shot in the head in the parking lot of an abandoned restaurant in Lac-Brome, Que., about an hour southeast of Montreal. Fairholm had called 911 himself.McGovern says he asked the teenager in English several times to drop a weapon, which police discovered later was an air pistol.
He says Fairholm was yelling and waving the weapon around as he advanced erratically toward the half-dozen officers who responded to the emergency call.
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