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Second shooting of Tla-o-qui-aht It s heartbreaking, it s not something that anyone wants to go through, he said.
Hugh Braker, president of the Native Courtworker and Counselling Association of British Columbia, said Jones was well-known in the Tofino and Port Alberni communities. This is causing a lot of profound shock in the community. This is the same First Nations community that lost a young woman last year to a fatal police shooting. And we re still not satisfied with the results of the inquiry into that death, he said.
In June of last year, Chantel Moore, a 26-year-old Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation woman, was shot and killed by a police officer during a wellness check in New Brunswick. Moore grew up on Vancouver Island and had recently moved to be with her mother and six-year-old daughter.
VANCOUVER B.C. s police watchdog has been called after Mounties shot and killed a man on a First Nation reserve off the West Coast of Vancouver Island Saturday night. According to a news release from the BC RCMP, two officers from the Tofino detachment were called to a home in the Opitsaht community of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation on Meares Island to locate a woman in distress. When they arrived, an interaction took place and one male was shot and another was taken into custody, police said in their release. They also described the incident as a fatal police-involved shooting.