By\u00a0Eric Plummer\u00a0 Local Journalism Initiative After scores of police officers descended on it, the tiny community of Nitinat, north of Port Renfrew must now come to terms with the tragic events that unfolded there over the past weekend. Nitinat is nestled along the edge of a large cutblock of trees near Cowichan Lake off North Shore Rd. It is a community of about 350 people on the Malachan Indian Reserve at Nitinat Lake around 100 kilometres northwest of Victoria. Early last Saturday morning, around 7a.m., Lake Cowichan RCMP were called to a house where they say they found a man dead and a “situation at hand.” That situation required multiple support units to be called in along with an Emergency Response team that included an armoured vehicle and multiple officers… <\/p>\n
By\u00a0Eric Plummer\u00a0 Local Journalism Initiative After scores of police officers descended on it, the tiny community of Nitinat, north of Port Renfrew must now come to terms with the tragic events that unfolded there over the past weekend. Nitinat is nestled along the edge of a large cutblock of trees near Cowichan Lake off North Shore Rd. It is a community of about 350 people on the Malachan Indian Reserve at Nitinat Lake around 100 kilometres northwest of Victoria. Early last Saturday morning, around 7a.m., Lake Cowichan RCMP were called to a house where they say they found a man dead and a “situation at hand.” That situation required multiple support units to be called in along with an Emergency Response team that included an armoured vehicle and multiple officers... <\/p>\n