Pingoatuk Kolola

Pingoatuk Kolola (born in 1970 ) is a Canadian citizen and convicted criminal. Kolola was convicted of gunning down Nunavut RCMP constable Douglas Scott who was fatally shot in the east Arctic community of Kimmirut while responding to a drunk driving complaint. A witness stated that Scott died trying to save a child.
In the courtroom, quiet cheers and weeping could be heard after the verdict had been read aloud just shortly after 1:30. Justice Robert Kilpatrick, the presiding justice, said that the verdict reflected "the quality of justice in the jurors' hearts and in their own community".<ref name=CBCref />
Andrew Mahar, defence attorney for Kolola, stated outside the courthouse that this is the saddest case he has ever worked in his entire career as a defence attorney. "A family lost a lovely young man. Another family lost their father - six kids - all for a moment of basically pointless violence," Mahar told reporters, "There's just no happy ending to this for anybody."<ref name=CBCref />

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