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Teen charged in Canada shooting may face adult sentence -report

Published 2016-02-22, 04:31 p/m
Teen charged in Canada shooting may face adult sentence -report
TWTR
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Feb 22 (Reuters) - A 17-year-old boy charged in the shooting
deaths of four people in northern Canada could be sentenced as
an adult if he is found guilty of the crimes, The Canadian
Press reported on Monday.
The Crown prosecutor on the case told a courtroom in Meadow
Lake, Saskatchewan, that he will apply for the accused to be
sentenced as an adult if convicted, the news agency said.
It said the teen will next appear in Saskatchewan provincial
court on April 12.
An official at Meadow Lake provincial court referred a call
to a government spokesperson, who could not be immediately
reached.
Police arrested the teen, who cannot be publicly named under
Canadian law because he is under 18, last month after a Jan. 22
shooting at a high school and home in remote La Loche,
Saskatchewan, about 600 km (375 miles) northwest of Saskatoon.
He faces four counts of first-degree murder, seven counts of
attempted murder and unauthorized possession of a firearm. Seven
people were wounded.
Teachers returned to the high school on Monday for the first
time since the shooting, according to local media reports.
The community's elementary school will reopen on Tuesday,
Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said on Twitter (N:TWTR).

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