Sarnia trial featuring police gunfire on Walpole Island underway

A trial started Tuesday in Sarnia linked to police officers firing shots at an SUV as it allegedly sped towards officers on Walpole Island during a shelter-in-place weapons call earlier this year. Joseph Kennedy, 53, from Chippewas of the Thames First Nation near London, was arrested March 2 on Walpole Island as tactical officers swarmed the small community near Wallaceburg. He was charged with two counts of assaulting police, one an OPP officer and the other a First Nations officer, with a weap