Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The 1935 Royal Canadian Mounted Police Killings were a series of murders of three Royal Canadian Mounted Police and one local constable from 5–8 October 1935. They began with the murders of Benito Constable William Wainwright and RCMP Constable John Shaw near Pelly, Saskatchewan by three Doukhobor men who had been in the custody of the officers. This led to a shoot which killed two additional RCMP officers in Banff, Alberta and the death of perpetrator Joeseph Posnikoff. The remaining two perpetrators were gunned down by civilian William Neish, as they were pursued by a combined posse of RCMP officers and armed civilian volunteers.The ordeals involved RCMP detachments from three provinces in Western Canada and would remain one of the deadliest incidents in RCMP history until the Mayerthorpe Tragedy in 2005. With the death of all perpatrators, the motivations of the perpatrators remain unknown."@en }
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- 1935_Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police_Killings abstract "The 1935 Royal Canadian Mounted Police Killings were a series of murders of three Royal Canadian Mounted Police and one local constable from 5–8 October 1935. They began with the murders of Benito Constable William Wainwright and RCMP Constable John Shaw near Pelly, Saskatchewan by three Doukhobor men who had been in the custody of the officers. This led to a shoot which killed two additional RCMP officers in Banff, Alberta and the death of perpetrator Joeseph Posnikoff. The remaining two perpetrators were gunned down by civilian William Neish, as they were pursued by a combined posse of RCMP officers and armed civilian volunteers.The ordeals involved RCMP detachments from three provinces in Western Canada and would remain one of the deadliest incidents in RCMP history until the Mayerthorpe Tragedy in 2005. With the death of all perpatrators, the motivations of the perpatrators remain unknown.".