Peru's office of the public prosecutor made the announcement in a tweet Thursday that included a photograph of the weapon, a 9-mm Taurus pistol. Sebastian Woodroffe of the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island was killed in a remote area of Peru on April 19 in retaliation for the shooting death of an 81-year-old Indigenous medicine woman, authorities say. (Sebastian Woodroffe/CBC)Sebastian Woodroffe, 41, was killed on April 19 in the Ucayali Region of eastern Peru. Authorities say they found a document showing that Woodroffe bought a gun on April 3 from a police officer, according to Ricardo Jimenez, head of public prosecutors in Ucayali. Traditional healer and elder Olivia Arevalo, 81, of the Shipibo-Conibo Indigenous people of Peru was shot and killed at her home last weekend.

Source: CBC News April 27, 2018 18:00 UTC