Canadian lynched in Peru owned gun that killed Indigenous healer, authorities say
Peru's office of the public prosecutor says the weapon matches gun bought by Canadian Sebastian Woodroffe
Karin Larsen · CBC · Posted: Apr 27, 2018 11:08 AM PT | Last Updated: an hour ago
Officials in Peru believe the gun used to fatally shoot revered shaman Olivia Arevalo last week has been found and that it matches the weapon bought by the Vancouver Island man who was killed in retaliation for her death.
Peru's office of the public prosecutor made the announcement in a tweet Thursday that included a photograph of the weapon, a 9-mm Taurus pistol.
Sebastian Woodroffe, 41, was killed on April 19 in the Ucayali Region of eastern Peru. A 90-second cellphone video of his lynching shows two men dragging the Comox Valley resident by a noose as others looked on. His body was later found buried nearby.
Authorities say they found a document showing that Woodroffe bought a gun on April 3 from a police officer, according to Ricardo Jimenez, head of public prosecutors in Ucayali.
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