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One year later: The shooting of a Kamloops police officer

KAMLOOPS - It’s been one year since residents in the Batchelor Heights neighbourhood of Kamloops awoke to the sound of gunfire, only to find out a Mountie was gravely injured and a manhunt was underway. Cpl. Jean-Rene Michaud pulled a white sedan over on the side of the road on Dec. 3, 2014, around 2:45...

Cpl. Michaud speaks about being shot to support hospital foundation

KAMLOOPS - Cpl. Jean-René Michaud has spoken on camera for the first time since he was shot during a traffic stop in Kamloops back in December. Michaud was conducting a traffic stop in the Batchelor Heights area on Dec. 3, 2014, when he was shot. He was rushed to hospital and has undergone multiple surgeries...

Shot mountie now in stable condition, transported back to Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – An injured Mountie has returned to Kamloops where he will continue his recovery. Kamloops RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Cheryl Bush said Cpl. Jean-Rene Michaud was transported to Royal Inland Hospital after his condition stabilized in a Vancouver hospital where he was transferred due to complications. During his recovery, members of the public raised funds...

A thank you from the family of Cpl. Michaud

'I RECEIVED THAT KNOCK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AND MY WORLD WAS SHATTERED' KAMLOOPS - Last month, after pulling over a white sedan, Cpl. Jean-Rene Michaud was shot several times. After a 12-hour manhunt in the Batchelor Heights neighbourhood, 36-year-old Kenneth Michael Knutson was taken into custody. Michaud has been in hospital ever...

Accused in Kamloops mountie shooting had history of violence toward authority

KAMLOOPS – Seven years before he was accused of shooting Kamloops Mountie Cpl. Jean-René Michaud, Kenneth Michael Knutson, 36, found himself in a remarkably similar situation—pulled over by police and packing a loaded gun. He was the passenger in a truck. With a gun tucked in his waistband, Knutson ran from the vehicle and police...

OFFICER DOWN: A timeline of the last three days in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – It’s been three days of shock, fear, concern, heart-ache, anger and finally, maybe even a little relief as the City of Kamloops and its detachment of RCMP officers came to grips with the shooting of an RCMP officer. Cpl. Jean-René Michaud, a 40-year-old father of two, was carrying out perhaps the most basic...

Knutson arrest opens ‘old wounds’ for family of previous shooting victim

COQUITLAM – Family members of a young Coquitlam man who died from a gunshot wound in 2002 are shaken by news the man who killed him is now implicated in the attempted murder of Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Jean-René Michaud. “My whole family is upset... it will always hurt us,” Will Lesniak says. “It’s a very...