Slain Colten Boushie's family vows to 'pursue justice' | News | Al Jazeera

13.2.18

Slain Colten Boushie's family vows to 'pursue justice' | News | Al Jazeera: A jury in Saskatchewan, a province in central Canada, on Friday found Gerald Stanley not guilty of second-degree murder in relation to the killing of Colten Boushie.

Stanley was also found not guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter.

Boushie, from Red Pheasant Cree Nation, was with friends in August 2016 when he drove onto Stanley's farm to ask for help with a flat tyre, according to Canadian media.

While accounts vary, a friend of Boushie's in the car that day said Stanley retrieved a gun from inside his shop and then shot Boushie in the head, CBC reported.

Stanley testified that the gun "just went off" and his lawyer argued that Boushie's death was a "freak accident" caused by Stanley responding to a highly charged situation in a "measured" way, the Saskatoon StarPhoenix newspaper reported.