Canada school shooting: Minor charged with murder

Police have charged a 17-year-old boy with four counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder in a mass shooting at a school and home in an aboriginal community in western Canada, officials said.

Police said on Saturday the male suspect can't be named under Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt. Grant St Germaine said nine people were shot in the school, two fatally a teacher and a teacher's aide. He said seven people wounded in Friday's shooting at the school are hospitalized.

Police said two brothers, 17-year-old Dayne Fountaine and 13-year-old Drayden, were shot dead in a home before the gunman headed to the grade 7-12 La Loche Community School. The suspect was arrested at the school on Friday afternoon. Police said they were not aware of a motive and declined to say what type of gun he used. The school is in the remote Dene aboriginal community of La Loche in Saskatchewan Province. La Loche is a community of less than 3,000 where just about everybody knows everybody else. "This is a significant event for Canada," St Germaine said. "It's a huge impact on the community of La Loche. It's a part of changing times. We are seeing more violence." 

The educational assistant killed at the Saskatchewan school was identified as 21-year-old Marie Janvier. Deegan Park, her boyfriend of three years, said he would have given up the rest of his life just to spend another year with her.