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Colten Boushie (October 31, 1993 – August 9, 2016) was a 22-year-old Indigenous man of the Cree Red Pheasant First Nation who was fatally shot on a rural Saskatchewan farm by its owner, Gerald Stanley. Stanley stood trial for second-degree murder and for a lesser charge of manslaughter, but was ultimately acquitted in February 2018. When Gerald Stanley went on trial for the murder of Colten Boushie in 2018, it captured the nation’s attention. Stanley had fatally shot Boushie, a 22-year-old Cree man, in the back of the head, and his subsequent acquittal by a jury that included no visible Indigenous people sparked questions about racism in Canada’s legal system.