Nunavut man shot dead by Winnipeg police had violent history connected to longing for home – Winnipeg [Video]

There’s a memorial wall at Tunngasugit Inuit Resource on Selkirk Avenue.

“This is in memory of Inuit we have lost,” says CEO Nikki Komaksiutiksak , next to the wall with more than a dozen photos of Inuit who’ve died in Winnipeg facing “numerous challenges while navigating urban life.”

The next photo to be added will be Jordan Charlie, 24, the Inuk shot and killed by police after stabbing an officer in the neck at a Unicity shopping complex on Sunday evening.

Charlie was taken at a young age from his home in Taloyoak, Nunavut, and bounced around to different provinces and territories through the child welfare system.

His first brush with the law as an adult happened in Yellowknife in 2019 when without warning or provocation, according to CKLB radio, he stabbed a man in the neck, stole his marijuana and while in custody, viciously attacked a jail guard.

Yellowknife’s NNSL Mediareported that Charlie’s lawyer, Baljinder …