VANCOUVER - The waiting is coming to an end for the family of Ian Bush, the Houston, B.C. man shot in the back of the head during a scuffle with a rookie officer at the Houston RCMP detachment in northern British Columbia.
Paul Kennedy, the chair of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, says the final report on the investigation into the October, 2005 incident will be released Nov. 29 in Vancouver.
Kennedy will also announce follow-up actions he intends to undertake immediately.
A coroner's inquest heard that Bush, 22, was fatally shot after being arrested for having an open beer outside a hockey arena.
Questions linger because a police blood-spatter expert cast doubt on Const. Paul Koester's story that he was being choked from behind when he was forced to fire.
In September, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association won the right to proceed with a judicial review of its complaint into the RCMP's actions after earlier investigations found no criminal charges should be laid against the officer.
