A Winnipeg police officer who shot and killed a 16-year-old girl following a Liquor Mart robbery last April has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing.
WINNIPEG In a split-second decision, a Winnipeg police officer said he made eye contact with a teen driving a stolen Jeep and fired his gun two times – striking and fatally wounding Eishia Hudson. Manitoba’s police watchdog has determined the officer will not face any charges. The details of the deadly shooting have been revealed in a final report released Thursday by the Independent Investigation Unit (IIU). An alleged theft from a Liquor Mart in Sage Creek quickly escalated on the evening of April 8, 2020, when multiple suspects, who police said were driving a stolen vehicle, attempted to escape from pursuing officers – leading them on a destructive chase that ended at Lagimodiere Boulevard and Fermor Avenue when an officer fired his gun two times at the driver.
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Police tape surrounds two houses in the 700 block of McGee Street on March 4, 2019. Jaime Adao, 17, was killed by Ronald Bruce Chubb, who was then shot by a police officer. The incident was investigated by the IIU.
The province’s police watchdog has closed the book on an investigation involving the slaying of teen Jaime Adao while at the same time raising discrepancies between a police officer’s version of events and agreed facts made public in court.
The province’s police watchdog has closed the book on an investigation involving the slaying of teen Jaime Adao while at the same time raising discrepancies between a police officer’s version of events and agreed facts made public in court.
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Police headquarters in Winnipeg.
Manitoba RCMP once recommended charges and were preparing to make arrests related to the troubled Winnipeg Police Service headquarters project, an internal document indicates.
Manitoba RCMP once recommended charges and were preparing to make arrests related to the troubled Winnipeg Police Service headquarters project, an internal document indicates.
A May 2018 briefing note, which was obtained by the provincial NDP through an access to information request, notes reports to the Crown recommended criminal charges relating to financial crimes with an estimated value of over $33 million.
The NDP says the note’s contents show the province should seek a second expert to review the case.
There had to have been something to allow the investigators to obtain search warrants, judicial authorizations which implies there s some evidence that they ve gathered of wrongdoing, Kenneth Molloy, a former Winnipeg Police Service fraud investigator, told CBC News after reading a copy of the briefing note.
Kenneth Molloy says the city s decision to pursue the police headquarters matter in civil court was the best move, because there the burden of proof for fraud in civil court is lower than than in criminal court.(CBC)
But the threshold to obtain a search warrant differs from the threshold a Crown prosecutor must meet to lay a charge or present a case at trial, he said.