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IQALUIT - The RCMP has issued a second warning about a Coral Harbour man who recently finished a seven-year sentence for manslaughter.

Police say the man has a history of using "extreme violence" and poses a moderate-high risk to re-offend.

Louie Evaloakjuk

Louie Evaloakjuk, 35, was released Sept. 17 from the Fenbrook Institution, a federal prison in Ontario.

Police warned the public at that time he was moving back to his home community.

Last week, RCMP issued a second release, alerting the public he would now be making his home in Iqaluit.

"We're just trying to make the public aware," said Staff Sgt. Harold Trupish.

A photograph was distributed along with the release. Evaloakjuk is 170 cm tall and weighs 66 kg. He has brown hair and brown eyes.

There are a number of conditions on his release, including one forbidding him from being in the company of persons under 16.

Evaloakjuk was 28 at the time of his manslaughter conviction.

He killed his brother Pierre, 40, in Rankin Inlet on Feb. 25, 2000, by slitting his throat with a hunting knife.

Trupish said the advisory is meant to provide the public with information that will enable them to take precautionary measures.

He stressed the RCMP is asking people not to take vigilante action, and that there was much consideration before releasing the information.

"It's not an easy decision to come up with," he said. "We review, and we review with other agencies to make sure."

This is the second offender which the RCMP in Nunavut has warned the public about this year.

In August, a similar warning was sent out about Roonie Ikalukjuaq, who had served more than three years in a Kingston penitentiary for sexual and aggravated assault.

Ikalukjuaq also returned to Iqaluit.