Sask. man at centre of infamous ‘Starlight Tours’ has died | 24CA News
The man who revealed the notorious “Starlight Tours” by Saskatoon Police greater than 20 years in the past, has died.
In January of 2000, Darrell Night was picked up by Saskatoon Police, and was pushed exterior town.
He was left in minus 20-degree temperatures sporting nothing however a T-shirt and a jean jacket.
He survived after an influence plant employee heard him knocking on the door.
While he was in a position to survive, many others didn’t, together with, two different Indigenous males, Rodney Naistus and Lawrence Wegne. Both have been discovered frozen to demise in the identical space, across the similar time as Night.
When Night went public about what occurred, it sparked outrage from the group leading to two officers being fired, legal costs and protests in opposition to the so-called “Starlight Tours.”
Night’s story additionally prompted an investigation into the 1990 demise of Neil Stonechild, which discovered that the aboriginal teen had been in police custody proper earlier than he ended up frozen to demise on town’s outskirts with handcuff marks on his nostril and wrists.
Night died earlier this month at age 56. A wake and funeral have been held on the Saulteaux First Nation situated roughly 150 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon.
The reason for demise just isn’t recognized.
An on-line obituary could be discovered right here.
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