GUYSBOROUGH: What started out as a call to
a suicide in progress, responding officers dispatched to the Desmond residence
in Upper Big Tracadie, discovered the former Afghanistan war veteran had
fatally shot his mother, wife and daughter, before turning the...
GUYSBOROUGH: Already having heard from three doctors
who interacted with Afghanistan war veteran retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond in the
months prior to the triple murder-suicide at their Upper Big Tracadie home, on
February 11, the inquiry began hearing testimony from...
GUYSBOROUGH: Three-hours before Shanna Desmond was
fatally shot by her husband, she requested information on the process of
obtaining a peace bond by calling a domestic violence crisis line.
The executive director of the Naomi Society...
GUYSBOROUGH: Hours after retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond
called his psychotherapist and told her his wife asked for a divorce, the
former rifleman fatally shot his wife, mother, and 10-year-old daughter before
turning the gun on himself.
On...
GUYSBOROUGH: Just two hours before retired
Cpl. Lionel Desmond used a military-style carbine to kill his 52-year-old mother,
31-year-old wife, and 10-year-old daughter, before turning the gun on himself,
the Afghanistan war veteran looked coherent and focused when he purchased...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The two families who have been affected the most by, and find themselves at the centre of the Desmond Fatality Inquiry, began testifying as the inquiry resumed on Feb. 16; looking into the incident that...
PORT HAWKEBSURY: The Desmond Fatality Inquiry heard from its final witnesses last week, including a psychiatrist who claimed Ret. Cpl. Lionel Desmond had an inadequate discharge plan when he left Ste. Anne’s Hospital in August 2016.
PORT HAWKESBURY: A former platoon member of retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond says the intensity of the gunfights and the grim duties of war took their toll on the then 24-year-old infantryman.
Testifying on Feb....
PORT HAWKESBURY: Chantel Desmond went to go pick up her niece on Jan. 3, 2017 at her brother’s house in Upper Big Tracadie, but rather than finding her ready to go to an after-school program, she discovered...
GUYSBOROUGH: The emergency room doctor who
assessed retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond two days before he purchased a
military-style carbine and killed his mother, wife, and 10-year-old daughter
before turning the gun on himself, testified on Monday that the veteran wasn’t
considering...