One year after Latjor Tuel's death, questions remain for his family
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Calgarians gathered Sunday to mark one year since the death of Latjor Tuel, who was shot and killed by police.
Gathering at the site where he died, Tuel's family is still looking for answers.
Tuel was a former child soldier who immigrated to Calgary from South Sudan, and was said to have been struggling from mental health issues including PTSD at the time of his death.
In 2022 he was shot and killed by police. Police have said Tuel allegedly assaulted someone with a stick and that he was carrying a knife.
A solemn group of about two dozen people gathered in southeast Calgary Sunday to remember Tuel.
His eldest daughter, Nyalinglat Latjor, said Sunday she remembers her father as a teacher who always wanted to make others laugh.
But she added that she's spent most of the year angry, and the passing of one year has brought up a lot of emotion.
"He said Nyalinglat, you're so small and when I was your age I never had what you got. I was carrying around a gun bigger than me,'" she said.
"I never really appreciated that moment until I lost him, I never really thought of the depth of what he said until I lost him … it breaks my heart that he was suffering."
She said Tuel came to Canada 22 years ago seeking a better life.
Nyalinglat said she wants to know why Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) is taking so long to investigate the shooting and release its report.
ASIRT investigates incidents where police officers may have caused serious injury or death, and serious or sensitive allegations of police misconduct.
CBC has previously reported on ASIRT's backlog of hundreds of open files. CBC has reached out to ASIRT for comment, which was not immediately available.
"There's video, they have the bodycam footage, why is the bodycam footage not released? Why are they not saying anything to us?" she said.
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