In the early evening of 9 August 2016, Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old man from Red Pheasant First Nation reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada, was riding as a passenger in an SUV with four of his friends. Realizing they had a flat tyre, the driver steered onto land belonging to white farmer Gerald Stanley.
Two of Boushie’s friends got out while he remained inside the vehicle. Stanley said he believed the group were attempting a robbery and fired two warning shots in the air from a semi-automatic pistol. The gun then went off ‘accidentally’; the third bullet entered the back of Boushie’s head and killed him.
