A timeline of murder and manslaughter cases involving Canadian police
with manslaughter in the death of an Indigenous man in Prince George, B.C., while three of their fellow Mounties face attempting to obstruct justice charges.
July 1980: Earle Hollett dies after a confrontation with police on a Nova Scotia bridge linking Halifax and Dartmouth. Constables David Cluett and Harry O’Donnell face second-degree murder charges. Cluett is acquitted, O’Donnell is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to three years in prison after court hears he hit Hollett repeatedly while Cluett held him.
May 1990: Marlon Neil, 17, is shot in the back twice while sitting in a locked car. Peel Regional Police Const. Brian Rapson is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and criminal negligence causing bodily harm. He is acquitted. October 1999: Darren Varley is shot dead in Pincher Creek, Alta., after a scuffle with police in a jail cell following his arrest for drunkenness. After two hung juries, RCMP Const. Michael Ferguson is convicted of manslaughter. Ferguson ultimately serves two months in jail.
November 2012: Mehrdad Bayrami, 48, is fatally shot by police outside the Starlight Casino in New Westminster, B.C., during a confrontation that begins with an alleged hostage-taking. Delta police Const. Jordan MacWilliams is charged with second-degree murder after an investigation by the province’s police watchdog, but proceedings are dropped in 2015 after the Criminal Justice Branch says the available evidence doesn’t support a viable prosecution.
January 2015: Michel Vienneau is shot dead in his vehicle outside a Bathurst, N.B., train station by police acting on an erroneous Crime Stoppers tip suggesting the 51-year-old and his wife were smuggling drugs. Const. Patrick Bulger and Const.
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