Three teens plead not guilty in young boy’s death
Posted Feb 15, 2012 10:46 pm.
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Three teens pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges on Wednesday in the shooting death of a young boy on a First Nations reserve.
The youth were arrested and charged In January 2012, after an investigation into the July 2011 death of Ethan Yellowbird.
The five-year-old boy was asleep in his bedroom when he was hit in the head by a bulled that entered his home on the Samson Cree First Nation reserve in Hobbema.
Police say the teen’s identities cannot be released because of their age, but say they are from the Hobbema area.
The teens will be back in court on June 9th.