A woman arrested at the scene of a police shooting in Niagara that took the life of a man suspected of killing a young mother in Brampton and abducting their one-year-old daughter has been charged with being an accessory to an offence.

The woman was arrested moments after Niagara police boxed in a vehicle at Gale’s Gas Bar at around 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Police say she was transporting Anthony Deschepper, on the run from police following a fatal shooting and child abduction in Brampton on Tuesday. The shooting and her arrest marked the end of an hours-long manhunt for Deschepper, stretching from the GTA to Niagara in the hours after the Brampton shooting.

Deschepper, who police say was armed at the time of the interaction, was fatally shot by a Niagara police officer. He died at the

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