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Canadian Press NewsAlert: No charges in RCMP shooting of N.B. man Rodney Levi

Jan 26, 2021 | 2:13 PM

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick’s Public Prosecutions Service has concluded no charges will be filed against police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Rodney Levi last year.

The prosecutions service says in a statement that the RCMP officers were acting lawfully to protect residents after responding to a complaint about a disturbance.

Levi, who was from the Metepenagiag First Nation, was shot dead by the RCMP on the evening of June 12 in Miramichi, N.B.

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