Acquitted of fatal shooting, farmer guilty on gun charge

NORTH BATTLEFORD, SASK. — A Saskatchewan farmer acquitted in the fatal shooting of a young Indigenous man is giving up his guns and has been ordered to pay a $3,000 fine after pleading guilty to unsafe storage of an unrestricted firearm.

Gerald Stanley pleaded guilty Monday in North Battleford provincial court to the charge that involved six rifles and shotguns.

Stanley was acquitted in the death of Colten Boushie, who was killed on Stanley’s farm in 2016.