WAGMATOOK, N.S. - The RCMP says an investigation into the police shooting death of a Cape Breton man last year has found no wrongdoing.
John Simon died after he was shot by an RCMP officer at a home on the Wagmatook First Nation reserve on Dec. 2, 2008.
The RCMP announced today that a probe by the Halifax police determined their actions were appropriate and no laws were broken.
Few details have been released about the shooting and some of Simon's relatives have disagreed with past statements made by the RCMP.
At the time of Simon's death, the RCMP said police tried to revive him at the scene but they wouldn't say whether he was carrying a gun or whether shots were exchanged.
Simon's common-law wife said he was intoxicated and suicidal at the time, but she denied the incident was a domestic dispute as the RCMP originally said.
The RCMP and Halifax police have discussed the results of the investigation with Simon's family.
