‘Treated like just another dead Indian’
Teenage suspect accused of aggravated assault in fatal stabbing incident released from custody on conditions; the other, charged with murder, asks for bail hearing to be delayed
A teenage defendant charged after a fatal stabbing incident two weeks ago was released from custody Tuesday, enraging loved ones and members of the victim’s Indigenous community.
Bail hearings were scheduled in Fredericton youth court Tuesday for two 17-year-old boys charged after Mark Albert Brooks II died after being stabbed on Fredericton’s north side June 21.
Brooks was better known to family, friends and members of his Sitansisk (St. Mary’s) First Nation community by the nickname “Barnzie.”
His death has left the Indigenous community on Fredericton’s north side reeling, and many Sitansisk members and members of the Brooks family attended Tuesday’s proceedings.