Family of Colton Crowshoe upset with killer’s sentencing: ‘I couldn’t believe it’

More than a decennary aft the sidesplitting of an Indigenous teen successful Calgary, a justice has sentenced his killer.

Wiley Provost was sentenced connected Friday successful the July 2014 decease of 18-year-old Colton Crowshoe.

Provost was sentenced to clip served positive a year: four-and-a-half years. He volition besides beryllium connected probation for 2 years.

Crowshoe was strangled to decease pursuing a location enactment successful northeast Calgary and his assemblage was thrown into a tempest pond adjacent Stoney Trail and 16th Avenue Northeast.

Police arrested Provost successful 2022 and charged him with second-degree murder. He would aboriginal plead blameworthy to manslaughter.

“The condemnation (the judge) said was a large daze to maine — I couldn’t judge it,” said Jimmy Crowshoe, Colton’s father.

“In different words, helium got possibly three-and-a-half years for sidesplitting my son. He’ll ne'er spell to bash that clip that he’s expected to beryllium doing.”

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Colton’s aunt, Nicole Johnston, told Global News that the condemnation gives the household a spot of closure.

However, she does not judge the condemnation that was handed down by the courts fits the transgression and has present mislaid religion successful the system.

“We consciousness the justness strategy failed america and failed Colton the most,” Johnston said. “I consciousness similar Colton ne'er got his justness successful this system.”