Jury deliberates in Nunavut RCMP officer’s fatal shooting inquest – National

A jury in a coroner’s inquest is to begin deliberations in the present day in a deadly taking pictures by a Nunavut RCMP officer who additionally faces an assault cost in one other case.

Cpl. Ian Crowe was charged with assault earlier this 12 months after he responded to a name for service in Sanirajak, Nunavut, in August of 2020.

Crowe, who’s to seem on the cost in Iqaluit courtroom subsequent Thursday, instructed The Canadian Press he has no touch upon the assault allegation.

The RCMP says Crowe is at the moment on administrative obligation.

Crowe testified earlier this week at an inquest in Gjoa Haven that he shot and killed an armed man close to the neighborhood’s airport in 2016.

Crowe instructed the inquest that 21-year-old Charles Qirngnirq had yelled out to himself that he wished to die earlier than he appeared to carry a rifle at Crowe and one other Mountie.

Consultants testified that Qirngnirq’s gun was not loaded and, though he was carrying two bullets, the bullets have been for a unique gun and wouldn’t have labored within the rifle.

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The Ottawa Police Service investigated the taking pictures and cleared Crowe, saying the officer’s use of drive was cheap.

The six-person jury is to find out the circumstances round Qirngnirq’s loss of life and make suggestions to forestall related deaths sooner or later.

Whereas attorneys for the coroner and Qirngnirq’s household argue his loss of life was a murder, the RCMP’s lawyer has stated it was suicide.