By Aaron Sousa Hoss Lightning, 15, was scared and alone the night he called 911 for help and was shot and killed by a pair of responding Mounties in a field south of Edmonton. A decision by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, the province’s police oversight body, says the teen’s death, while tragic, was not criminal and the two officers involved won’t be charged. The agency’s acting executive director, Matthew Block, says the officers believed the boy was pointing a gun at them from inside a backpack. No gun was found. “It is not reasonable to expect an officer who believes he is about to be shot to act like a perfectly calm and rational person,” he says in the report released Thursday. “When a person pretends to point…
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