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Coroner to probe fatal police shooting involving B.C. senior with shotgun

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The BC Coroners Service says it will hold an inquest into the deaths of two people shot just over five years ago during a confrontation with police in the tiny northern Interior village of Granisle, on the shore of Babine Lake, east of Smithers.

Thirty-nine-year-old Jovan Williams and his 73-year-old mother Shirley Williams were shot as RCMP responded to what they described as a “neighbour dispute involving a handgun.”

The officer who fired the shots was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Independent Investigations Office - with the IIO report finding Jovan Williams ran from a home, pointed a rifle and threw a fuel-filled bottle, while Shirley Williams emerged carrying a shotgun and wearing a bulletproof vest.

The inquest - originally scheduled for June of last year - was postponed due to the pandemic and is now slated for the week of Nov. 1, in Smithers.

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