Family of Colton Crowshoe upset with killers sentencing: I couldnt believe it – Calgary [Video]

More than a decade after the killing of an Indigenous teen in Calgary, a judge has sentenced his killer.

Wiley Provost was sentenced on Friday in the July 2014 death of 18-year-old Colton Crowshoe.

Provost was sentenced to time served plus a year: four-and-a-half years. He will also be on probation for two years.

Crowshoe was strangled to death following a house party in northeast Calgary and his body was thrown into a storm pond near Stoney Trail and 16th Avenue Northeast.

Police arrested Provost in 2022 and charged him with second-degree murder. He would later plead guilty to manslaughter.

“The sentence (the judge) said was a big shock to me — I couldn’t believe it,” said Jimmy Crowshoe, Colton’s father.

“In other words, he got maybe three-and-a-half years for killing my son. He’ll never go to do that time that he’s supposed to be doing.”