“I’ll shoot you” threat nets conditional sentence

Samuelie Ipirq of Arctic Bay received a six-month conditional sentence, two months of it under house arrest, for threatening to kill a police officer.

“I’ll shoot you. You’re a dead man,” Ipirq told Cpl. Clare Kines.

Kines was removing Ipirq from a school dance for being drunk.

Ipirq had no memory of the event.

“He was clearly drunk and out of control but admits [he uttered the threat],” lawyer Andy Mahar said.

Ipirq was given more than a month’s credit for the 21 days he served in remand custody.