"We all grieve with and stand with the community of La Loche and the province of Saskatchewan on this terrible and tragic day," Trudeau said.
Initially, law enforcement did not described the incident as a shooting, but Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall confirmed "shootings" took place.
"The community usually pulls together really strong in times like this. Right now, La Loche is devastated," chief of the Clearwater River Dene Nation, Teddy Clark, told Saskatoon Star Phoenix newspaper.
The incident occurred at La Loche Community School, CBC News reported. Both it and the community elementary school are in lockdown.
A young person who says he is a La Loche student and in a classroom there says he saw a staff member shot. #yxe pic.twitter.com/UPyNbqAxA9— John Baglieri (@JohnBaglieriCTV) January 22, 2016
According to the school's Facebook page, an "emergency" took place at the Dena Building, and the lockdown won't be lifted until the area is declared safe. The school is asking the public to stay away.
"Parents and community members are asked to not attend the Dene High School at this time due to the active, ongoing incident. Parents only are asked to attend the Ducharme Elementary School on Mission Street in La Loche," RCMP said in an emailed statement, according to BNO News. "We are in the preliminary stages of investigation. Further details will be provided as they become available."
Comment: So they illegally imprisoned him, without charges, for 13 years and at the end admitted that they were so incompetent that they couldn't figure out that they had the wrong guy the entire time. Then, to top it all off, they refuse to send him back to his own country. Could it be any more obvious that the entire war on terror is a fabricated sham? Truly shameful.