Madison Jimmy says it was shoot or be shot.

The 25-year-old mother from Thunderchild First Nation is currently in jail.

She has been charged with 2nd-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of 28-year-old Tonio Cantell on Nov. 5, 2025.

She appeared in North Battleford, Sask., provincial court on Nov. 7, 2025. The case has been set forward to December.

Jimmy does not deny shooting Cantell. But she says it happened in an explosion of violence that left three men dead in a matter of minutes at a farmyard west of Turtleford, 226 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon.

She said Cantell had killed her fiancé, 46-year-old Dustin Roberts, then swung the rifle between his own girlfriend and herself.

"The look on his face," she said during a phone interview with CBC from Pine Grove Cor

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