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Saskatoon police said no charges will be laid against a woman who was defending herself and her children when she killed a man inside a Preston Avenue home last month.

Police on Monday announced that no murder charge will be laid in connection with the March 11 incident. Officers were called around 1 a.m. to a duplex in the 1500 block of Preston Avenue South with a report of an injured 29-year-old man, who later died in hospital. A 36-year-old woman was taken into custody and later released.

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According to a police news release, Crown prosecutors, “after a thorough review of the evidence,” determined that the man “forced his way into the woman’s suite and placed her in a position where she was forced to defend herself and her children.”

The Crown felt there “was no reasonable likelihood of conviction” for any Criminal Code offence, and chose not to lay any charges.

Police said the woman and the dead man were tenants in the same building, but other than that had no relationship.

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Last month, family identified the man killed as 29-year-old Ezekiel Dawatsare. According to his father, Dawatsare worked for a mining company and was a camp manager who lived in Saskatoon when he was not away for work.

Dawatsare had lived in Saskatoon for more than two years, and was a hard worker and a good man, his father, Gordon Eaglefeather, said in an interview last month.

Eaglefeather said while his son had struggled with alcohol in the past, he had been sober for at least eight months at the time of his death.

cthamilton@postmedia.com