Colton Crowshoe disappeared after leaving a house party in 2014. His body was found in a pond three weeks later and his death has been deemed a homicide. Eight years later, his family, and police, are still looking for answers.
A decade after Jimmy Crowshoe invited reporters and cameras into his backyard, begging for the public’s help in finding his missing son, he stood in the middle of Calgary’s Indigenous courtroom and smudged, preparing to address his son’s killer at a sentencing hearing Friday.Colton Crowshoe disappeared after leaving a house party in 2014. His body was found in a pond three weeks later. His friend Wiley Provost was charged in 2022 and pleaded guilty to manslaughter last fall.
But it took eight years before charges were laid against Wiley Su Provost — a close friend of Colton's at the time of his death.Provost, who was 19 years old in 2014, left the party with Colton but told police he and his friend separated after leaving. Provost said he passed out not knowing what happened to the victim.
During the sentencing hearing Friday, Jimmy Crowshoe spoke directly to his son's killer, remembering a time in the days after Colton's death that Provost had come to him for help.Prosecutor Doug Taylor asked Justice George Gaschler to consider an eight- to 10-year prison term.'Jail is not the answer for healing'
The courtroom space is modelled after a teepee and features a half-moon table, which the judge, lawyers, accused and victim's family sit around.Defence lawyer Gloria Froese spoke in court about the over-representation of Indigenous people in the prison system and asked the judge to consider a sentence in the three- to four-year range.
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