Murdered teen leaves family, friends and teachers grieving

“[School staff] began hearing about it just before noon yesterday, at lunch time the principal called a meeting with the staff and informed them that it’s very likely the student was the one involved in the shooting in the city that morning,” said Nunn, adding that Bear’s sister had confirmed the rumors with the school.

“Once all the news started coming in, [the principal] put together the school social worker, one of the mentors and also the guidance counsellor, at the ready to meet with the kids.”

Nunn said that off-site specialists were ready to help if need be and the same services were available to students today as well.

“There was a lot of kids who were obviously upset and needed consoling,” said Nunn.

Nunn spoke about a recent conversation that had transpired between Wesmor Principal Cory Trann and Bear.

“He was just telling me about a conversation he had had with Clayton,” said Nunn. “He said to Clayton ‘I didn’t see you writing down many notes’, and Clayton said ‘I don’t need to write down any notes I’ll do okay in this exam.’”

Nunn explained Trann had been surprised by the result.

“I think Clayton said ‘I’ll get the highest mark for the class,’” said Nunn. “They had the exam and sure enough Clayton came out with the highest mark in the class.”

Prince Albert Police Service confirmed on Monday that Bear was pronounced dead at Victoria Hospital that morning after he was picked up from the scene of a shooting incident by paramedics.

Police have said the investigation is being treated as a homicide, but have not released the names of any possible suspects in the shooting at this point.

The incident happened Monday morning in the 500-block of 27th Street East.

It is the second shooting incident in the East Hill area in a month.

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by James Bowler

Murdered teen leaves family, friends and teachers grieving

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