No appeal in fatal police shooting of New Brunswick store owner: prosecutors
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick prosecutors won’t attempt to revive manslaughter charges in the police shooting of a businessman.
In a statement released Monday, Public Prosecution Services says it decided not to make further attempts in light of two previous court decisions and after a reassessment of the threshold for prosecution.
Const. Patrick Bulger and Const. Mathieu Boudreau had been charged in the death of Michel Vienneau, a 51-year-old Tracadie, N.B., store owner who was shot in his vehicle outside the Bathurst train station on Jan. 12, 2015.
The officers had each faced charges of manslaughter with a weapon, assault with a weapon and unlawfully pointing a firearm.