A 14-year-old boy charged in the shooting death of another teen is facing more charges after investigators linked the gun used in the Sept. 7 shooting to one reported stolen two days earlier.
Saskatoon police say the boy is now facing charges of possessing stolen property under $5,000 and possessing a firearm obtained in the commission of an offence, bringing the total number of charges against him to 15.
He is accused in the Labour Day shooting death of a 15-year-old boy and was charged earlier this week with manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death with a firearm. Last week he was charged with several weapons-related offences.
Police were called Sept. 7, around 6:45 p.m., to a home on the 300 block of Avenue Q South in the city’s Pleasant Hill neighbourhood. A teen was found dead inside the house. An autopsy later concluded he died of a gunshot wound.
Police say the gun used in the shooting was reported stolen Sept. 5 from a car in northwest Saskatoon.
The death is Saskatoon’s sixth homicide of 2015.
The victim and suspect were known to each other, according to police.
