US Edition‘Devastated:’ Family, friends hold vigil for 15-year-old boy fatally shot by police
The independent police watchdog is investigating the case after officers responded to a 911 call about armed youths, with the officer placed on indefinite sick leave.
- A 15-year-old teen, Nooran Rezayi, was shot and killed by police in Longueuil, near Montreal, after officers responded to a 911 call about armed youths.
- Quebec's police watchdog said the only gun seized at the scene belonged to the officer who shot Rezayi.
- At a vigil, Rezayi's father described him as a 'thoughtful and loving teen whose future was unjustly torn away' and hoped his memory would be 'a guiding light pointing to healing and change.
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Tensions rise over teen fatally shot by police, with authorities, vigil organizers urging calm
Longueuil, Que., police say they have already arrested one 15-year-old who they said threatened an officer, and they say they hope a planned march and vigil to honour Nooran Rezayi will take place in a peaceful manner.
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'Devastated:' Family, friends hold vigil for 15-year-old boy fatally shot by police
LONGUEUIL — Family and friends of a 15-year-old who was shot and killed by police on Montreal's South Shore united in grief on Saturday as they held a vigil in honour of a teen who died too soon.
The Hamilton Spectator
‘Devastated:’ Family, friends hold vigil for 15-year-old boy fatally shot by police
LONGUEUIL - Family and friends of a 15-year-old teen who was shot and killed by police on Montreal's South Shore told a vigil today that they're devastated by his loss.
Hundreds of people are gathered in Saint-Hubert, on the south shore of Montreal, to pay tribute to young Nooran Rezayi.
Radio-Canada was able to consult the notes transmitted to the Longueuil police officers by the 911 station before their intervention, which cost the lives of Nooran Rezayi.
At only fifteen years old, Nooran Rezayi is probably the youngest victim of police blunder in recent Quebec history. He was unarmed, had not threatened or bothered anyone, and yet a cop from the Longueuil Police Service (SPAL) decided to shoot him with two bullets in front of his friends on September 21st. At Radio-Canada, Stéphane Wall, ex-sergent of the City of Montreal Police Service (SPVM), who has already shot a citizen, suggests that the c…
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