Police charge 17-year-old boy in Canada after 4 shot dead

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By ROB GILLIES

TORONTO (AP) — A 17-year-old boy was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder in a mass shooting at a school and home in a remote aboriginal community in western Canada, officials said.

Police said the male suspect can't be named under Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt. Grant St. Germaine said nine people were shot in the school, including a female teacher's aide who died at the scene and a male teacher who died in a hospital. He said seven people wounded in Friday's shooting at the school are hospitalized.

Two brothers, 17-year-old Dayne Fountaine and 13-year-old Drayden, were shot and killed in a home before the gunman headed to the grade 7-12 La Loche Community School, police said. Police responded to a call of shots fired at the school shortly after the lunch hour.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commanding Officer Brenda Butterworth-Carr said when officers arrived at the school they saw the front door had been shot open. They entered the school, spotted the suspect and gave chase before apprehending him. He is due in court next week.

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Candles and flowers placed as a memorial lay near the La Loche, Saskatchewan, junior and senior high school on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. The shooting occurred Friday. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

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[AllyCat]

1. Heartbreaking. Guns ruin everything.

[phylny]

2. The poor families. I hate guns. Hate.

And the one family - not one of their children, but two dead. I wonder if those boys were the shooter's brothers?

[LiberalEsto]

3. It sounds like the 17-year-old victim and the shooter, also 17, could have been twins

What a nightmare for that family. Two sons dead and one a murderer

[phylny]

4. Thanks for the clarification. n/t

[valerief]

5. 17-year-old with Killing Machine charged with killing 4.

I'd like to see the word "gun" replaced with "killing machine" in all these avoidable death stories.

[renate]

7. I love that idea

In fairness, I suppose gun enthusiasts could also describe it as a self-defense device, but even then, it's a self-defense device only because it can be used to kill. That's its sole purpose. And in avoidable-death stories, that's doubly true. I think you have a really good idea there.

[valerief]

11. Thanks! That's how I see guns. Their only function is to kill. nt

[polly7]

6. One of those killed was the mayor's daughter, yet he still called for patience and compassion

when talking to one reporter on the news up here. It's a very close community, they're in terrible shock and confusion.

[navarth]

8. Anybody remember when this was RARE???

I do. I'm an old enough fart to remember when something like this was absolute, total shock.

Now the newscasters have to work harder and harder to act surprised, or even horrified when they relate these all-too-common stories.

Humans. I don't know what to do, exactly.

[Bad Dog]

9. Over here (UK,) it's extremely rare.

It's obvious why that is. It's not human's that's the problem, it's easy access to guns.

[laundry_queen]

10. Agree

In these more rural, northern areas in Canada is where there is more access to guns (lots more hunting, less oversight for our strict gun laws, less policing etc).