Hudson Brooks' family demands answers, 3 months after fatal shooting

Three months after 20-year-old Hudson Brook was shot and killed by Surrey RCMP, his family says they are still waiting for answers.

"I will never give up on our fight for justice for Hudson," said his mother Jennifer Brooks on Sunday as the family held a rally in Surrey for the slain man.

"This is not okay, this is not okay. They walked away like this didn't matter. Our son's life mattered. It mattered for many of us and this is not okay."

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Brooks was gunned down outside the South Surrey RCMP detachment in July, 2015.

B.C.'s Independent Investigations Office — IIOBC — continues to look into the incident.

Neither the IIO, nor the RCMP has revealed what happened in the moments leading up to the shooting, and why, or how a weapon was drawn.

But the IIO has said that a female officer suffered a gunshot wound to the leg during an altercation, after responding to reports of a suicidal man.

According to the IIO only one weapon was retrieved from the scene.

No history of mental illness

Brook's brother Beaudry is adamant Hudson had no problems with mental illness.

"And even if he did, never, never should [it] have happened," he said. "If someone has a mental health issue, which my brother did not, you help them, you don't shoot them five or seven times."

The IIO says it continues to gather information on the case and will send the gun that was fired for forensic analysis.

However, it admits, it could take months before the Brooks family finds out more information due to a back-log of cases.

Meanwhile Jennifer Brooks says she will continue to demand answers.

"I'll never let this go," she said. "Do they think we will wait for a year from now until they let me know? Do they think it's just going to fade away, we aren't going to fade away."