‘Cared for everyone’: Best friend of teen shot by police says he had so much to live for

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The champion person of a 15-year-old lad who was changeable and killed by Surrey RCMP officers connected Sunday day told Global News that she volition miss the mode helium ever made radical laughter the most.

Chase, whose past sanction we are not releasing for privateness reasons, was a neurodivergent 15-year-old boy.

Gabby Fisher had known Chase for astir 7 years.

She said she heard sirens connected Sunday day but she didn’t cognize what had happened until Monday greeting erstwhile her ma told her that Chase had died.

“I don’t deliberation helium deserved to spell truthful aboriginal astatine the property of 15, and helium had truthful overmuch to unrecorded for,” she said. “He had truthful overmuch going for him. He had specified a large character. He ever loved dressing up. And helium would scare maine each the clip erstwhile I’d spell to his house.

“And helium loved his friends. Every country that idiosyncratic would locomotion into, determination was ever laughter due to the fact that of Chase, and helium ever cared for everyone and his household and his friends, and determination was ne'er a dull infinitesimal with him.”

On Sunday, RCMP were called astir a idiosyncratic with a limb by a schoolyard. Surveillance video shared with Global News shows Chase holding something, past appears to constituent it astatine himself, earlier pointing it astatine the pursuing officers.

An RCMP serviceman fired 2 shots, sidesplitting the teenager.

“I deliberation that helium was precise frightened and was successful shock,” Fisher said. “Because, I mean, if constabulary were chasing aft me, I’d beryllium beauteous frightened too.”

She said Chase deserved to beryllium live contiguous and questioned if determination was a amended mode to woody with the situation.

“He’s ne'er been the idiosyncratic to wounded anyone oregon wounded himself, but helium was conscionable a precise loving person,” Fisher added.

The Independent Investigations Office of BC (IIO) is present investigating arsenic a constabulary serviceman was involved.

On Tuesday, the enactment confirmed the unfortunate successful the lawsuit was a younker but did not supply immoderate different details, including what Chase was holding.

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“It’s a piece, important portion of investigative accusation that we volition merchandise astatine the close time, but it’s not thing that we tin merchandise astatine this time,” Jessica Burglund with the IIO told Global News.

In a connection connected Monday, Surrey Schools confirmed a pupil from the Clayton Heights Secondary School assemblage had died implicit the weekend.

“Counsellors volition beryllium on-site astatine Clayton Heights Secondary to enactment staff, students and the community,” the schoolhouse territory confirmed successful an email.

AutismBC says it strongly advocates for trauma-informed attraction to enactment the community and this incidental has amplified the urgency for action.

“It is important to stress knowing of disabilities affected by delayed enforcement functioning and auditory processing and to heighten our extortion of the non-speaking assemblage members who tin beryllium peculiarly astatine risk,” the enactment successful a statement.

“To this end, we advocator for broad acquisition and grooming for each exigency aesculapian services crossed sectors. Additionally, we proceed to advocator for a neuroaffirmative and voluntary recognition strategy to enactment autistic and non-speaking individuals.”

Meanwhile, a memorial continues to turn astatine the determination wherever Chase died.

“He loved helping people, nary substance what, successful what concern they were in, helium loved helping people,” Fisher said.

“I deliberation that everyone deserved a accidental to conscionable him and to get to cognize him, due to the fact that helium was a truly bully person.”