Hours after her son fatally shot a man outside a Winnipeg bar, Amber Rockelle Fuz convinced a key witness to drive to her home in rural Manitoba, where she removed evidence from the woman’s phone and told her to lie about what happened.

Fuz, 46, pleaded guilty to attempting to obstruct justice in 2023 and has now been sentenced to just under two years in custody for the crime.

“Fuz’s stated motive for offending was to protect her son and not wanting to lose him,” Judge Lisa LaBossiere wrote in a sentencing decision, released Aug. 21 by the Provincial Court of Manitoba.

“While I accept that Fuz loved her son and wanted to protect him, this does not excuse her attempts to conceal her son’s involvement in a homicide. Her actions were deliberate and designed with this one motive in mind.”

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