La Loche shooter asked for gift on anniversary of massacre
A convicted shooter asked staff at the youth correction facility where he was incarcerated if they planned to get him a gift on the anniversary of his massacre in La Loche.
This, and several other facts, came out of a pre-sentence report discussed in a Meadow Lake courtroom this morning at the sentencing hearings for a young gunman who killed four and injured seven others in La Loche on January 22, 2016. The now 19-year-old cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, and the hearing is to determine whether he will face sentencing as an adult.
He pleaded guilty last October to the second-degree murders of Dayne and Drayden Fontaine who were killed in their home, and to the first-degree murders of teacher Adam Wood and teacher’s aide Marie Janvier, who were killed at the La Loche Community School.
Tanis Fidler, who works with the Department of Corrections and Policing, was called as a Crown witness. She interviewed the shooter on two separate occasions, on November 28, 2016 and March 6, 2017 for a combined total of three hours. She also gathered information from La Loche Community School, family members and other supports in the community.