The death of Jeremy Stephens

Grief follows its personal clock.

4 years in the past this week, Jeremy Stephens was shot and killed by Summerside police. For 4 years, every day has been the identical for his mom.

“It’s exhausting. He’s the very first thing I take into consideration after I open my eyes within the morning, last item I take into consideration after I shut my eyes at evening,” says Gilda Stephens. “All people in my household has been affected by this.”

Stephens was a suspect in a theft the evening of the taking pictures, and an try by police to take him into custody led to the lethal use of drive towards the younger man with a historical past of despair, psychological sickness, drug habit and crime.

4 years later, members of the prolonged Stephens household are on a quest for an finish to their grief – and for a broad, totally public examination of what occurred.

“I would like solutions,” Gilda Stephens informed CBC Information. “We’re nonetheless caught on Might 27, 2018.”