‘Everyone wants to know why’: La Loche shooter
“Everyone wants to know why.”
This was the response the teenager gave to his case worker Chris Hales at Kilburn Hall in Saskatoon when asked the question of why he did what he did. The teen fatally shot four people and wounded seven others in La Loche on January 22, 2016,
Hales was called as one of Crown prosecutor Lloyd Stang’s final witnesses in the sentencing hearings for the youth who pleaded guilty to the second-degree murders of brothers Dayne and Drayden Fontaine, and to the first-degree murders of teacher Adam Wood and teacher’s aide Marie Janvier.
The youth’s identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, as he was 17-years-old when the shootings took place. He also pleaded guilty to seven counts of attempted murder. The hearings are to determine whether or not he will be tried as an adult.