The Alberta Serious Incident Response team will investigate how police handled missing person complaint of Colton Crowshoe

The Alberta Serious Incident Response team will
investigate “allegations of a possible breach of trust” in how police handled the missing person complaint regarding 18-year-old Colton Crowshoe. He was last seen leaving a party in Calgary July 4, and three weeks later his body was located in the city’s northeast. Police ruled it a homicide. The agency is looking into interactions between Calgary police and Crowshoe in the days leading up to his disappearance. Crowshoe had been arrested July 2, charged with trespassing and break and enter and released that same day. Family alleges Calgary police dismissed their concerns and requests for help in locating Crowshoe, saying police racially-profiled the young man. The Calgary Herald reported that the family further alleges that Calgary police showed a lack of empathy after Crowshoe’s body was found. “Right away, off the bat, they started making all these assumptions,” Danielle Crowshoe is quoted saying. “(Police) didn’t know Colton ... right away they stereotyped him.”