Authorities in Peru say the gun that killed a plant healer matches one purchased by a Canadian man who was slain in the Amazon rain forest earlier this month. The justice ministry says Sebastian Woodroffe, 41, purchased the gun on April 3 — a few weeks before Olivia Arevalo, an octogenarian from the Shipibo-Konibo tribe of northeastern Peru, was killed. Olivia Arevalo, an 81-year-old traditional healer of the Shipibo-Conibo tribe, died of gunshot wounds near her home in the Amazonian region of Ucayali. Prosecutors have said two suspects were identified in a video shot on a cellphone showing the moment Woodroffe was killed last week. Woodroffe posted online ahead of his trip to Peru, saying he hoped that an apprenticeship with a plant healer would help his goal of changing careers to become an addiction counsellor using hallucinogenic medicine.

Source: Huffington Post April 28, 2018 13:07 UTC