New Brunswick RCMP dispute death of Indigenous man was wellness check gone wrong – Global News

September 13, 2024

New Brunswick RCMP are disputing claims that the recent shooting death of an Indigenous man in mental distress happened during a police wellness check.

Assistant commissioner DeAnna Hill, commander of the New Brunswick RCMP, says that information is inaccurate.

On Monday, the RCMP said two officers responded to a report of an armed man in mental distress at a home in the Elsipogtog First Nation, where one Mountie shot the man after the other failed to subdue him with a stun gun.