The fatal police shooting of a 15-year-old boy in Quebec has renewed calls to make body cameras mandatory for all police officers in the province.

The teenage boy, Nooran Rezayi, was shot and killed Sunday by an officer with the Longueuil police force. Police were responding to reports of a group of armed individuals in a quiet suburban neighbourhood in Longueuil on Montreal’s South Shore at the time of the shooting.

There was only one firearm seized at the scene by investigators from Quebec’s police watchdog , the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), and it belonged to the officer who shot Rezayi, said Brigitte Bishop, head of the BEI, on Tuesday.

The incident has left the community reeling, and a vigil and demonstration planned for Saturday are pushing for the provincial gove

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