Calgary Police Service divers search pond for clues in Crowshoe homicide

Over a year after Colton James Crowshoe’s body was found floating in the retention pond off Stoney Trail in Calgary, city police have yet to charge anyone in the homicide. Today, Sept. 14, Calgary Police Service and the Calgary Fire Department aquatics team returned to the pond to search for additional evidence. CFD divers entered the pond at 16 Avenue N.E. and Stoney Trail. Crowshoe, 18, was located in the pond on July 24, 2014, after a passerby called 911 reporting a body in the water. Crowshoe had been reported missing after being last seen by friends in the Abbeydale area of northeast Calgary, sometime between 2:30 a.m. and 4 a.m., on July 4, 2014. Two days before, Crowshoe had been arrested and charged with trespassing and break and enter. Family members reported him missing a few days after he was last seen. A missing person’s news release was not issued until July 22. Two days later his body was found in the Abbeydale retention pond. Crowshoe’s family charged racism against CPS in its handling of the matter. Alberta Serious Incident Response Team launched an investigation which has yet to conclude. “Our investigators continue to maintain close contact with the family and the First Nations community oversight individual, who was appointed to monitor the ASIRT investigation,” said ASIRT spokesperson Lynn Neufeld in an email to Alberta Sweetgrass.