Quebec’s Crown prosecutor will not lay charges in the aftermath of a 2015 police shooting on Inuit territory.

The two Inukjuak officers who shot a man to death last year were cleared of criminal wrongdoing after an investigation by the Sûreté du Québec. The Crown prosecutor’s office announced their decision not to file charges against the police in a statement released Monday.

A man was shot and killed by two Inukjuak officers on April 24, 2015, after he entered the local police station brandishing an axe. According to the SQ’s investigation, the man lunged at one of the officers with the weapon, causing one of them to fire two shots at him.

Though he was wounded by gunfire, the man apparently got back to his feet, retrieved the axe and continued toward the police. They opened fire on him again, this time killing him.

The SQ’s report says the officers repeatedly warned the man to drop the weapon and that he never complied. Investigators determined that, because they feared for their lives, the officers’ use of lethal force was justified.

The two Crown prosecutors who reviewed the file judged that there was a “plausible” threat to the officers’ lives and, given the rapidly escalating nature of the encounter, they were within their rights to shoot the man.

Inukjuak is an Inuit village along the eastern shores of Hudson Bay.