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Red Deer RCMP responded to an apartment building in the area of 59 Avenue and 60 Street for a firearms complaint on November 24th at approximately 1:30pm.
On arrival police located 26-year-old Shaeleigh Jahner a resident of Red Deer, deceased.
According to reports the community was placed under a shelter-in-place order, including the lockdown of the nearby Koinonia Christian School, while Mounties searched for the suspect.
Police arrested the suspect 32-year-old Christopher Furgason, a resident of Red Deer, on November 25th and charged him with manslaughter with a firearm.
Furgason is scheduled to appear at the Alberta Court of Justice in Red Deer on Dec. 1.