IQALUIT, Nunavut, March 11 (UPI) -- A jury found a Nunavut man guilty Thursday of first-degree murder in the shooting of a young Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer in 2007.
In the fourth day of deliberations, the 11-person jury in Iqaluit found 39-year-old Pingoatuk Kolola guilty of killing 20-year-old Constable Doug Scott in Kimmirut, on the southern shore of Baffin Island, in November 2007, the Nunatsiaq News reported.
In a recorded confession, court heard Kolola was drunk and had been smoking marijuana and felt suicidal the day he shot Scott. Kolola said he had earlier been fighting with his common-law wife over her demands he move out.
Court heard he was cradling his 8-month-old son in one hand when he fired the rifle through the passenger window of Scott's police truck, the report said.
He will be sentenced Friday. The conviction carries a mandatory minimum sentence of life imprisonment without parole eligibility for 25 years.
