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Jury finds 2 men guilty of manslaughter in 2017 killing of Jeanenne Fontaine

Jeanenne Chantel Fontaine died after being shot and being exposed to a fire on March 14. Winnipeg Police Service Handout

A jury found two men guilty of manslaughter in the death of Jeanenne Fontaine Saturday morning.

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Christopher Brass and Jason Meilleur pleaded not guilty, after being accused of killing the 29-year-old in 2017.

A Crown attorney says three men showed up at a Winnipeg house searching for a man in order to collect a drug debt, and Tina Fontaine’s cousin was killed because she happened to be home.

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Jeanenne Chantel Fontaine was shot in the back of the head, before the house was set ablaze in March 2017.

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Earlier, the body of Fontaine’s 15-year-old cousin was discovered wrapped in the Red River in August 2014. Raymond Cormier was acquitted in her death last year.

Tina Fontaine’s death prompted calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Brass will be sentenced next week, while Meilleur’s sentencing dates haven’t been set yet.

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