Saskatchewan’s premier and a veteran Member of Parliament met with community leaders in La Loche Sunday afternoon to discuss shootings in the village on Friday that left four people dead.
The flight carrying Premier Brad Wall and MP Ralph Goodale to the northern community was initially delayed by bad weather.
Goodale says more needs to be done to keep people in remote, Indigenous towns safe.
About 250 people packed a Roman Catholic church earlier for a service that an archbishop says was intended to give the community words of encouragement.
Archbishop Murray Chatlain says he has met with the victims’ families as well as the family of a 17-year-old boy who is charged with four counts of first-degree murder, seven counts of attempted murder and unauthorized possession of a firearm.
The youth is scheduled to make his first appearance Monday in Meadow Lake provincial court.
R-C-M-P say that during an eight-minute period in the La Loche Community school on Friday afternoon, nine people were shot.
Two staff members died and two brothers, aged 13 and 17, were discovered dead in a nearby home.
(The Canadian Press)