GUYSBOROUGH: The New Brunswick doctor who signed off on
retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond’s firearms licence review described the 33-year-old
veteran on the medical assessment as “non-suicidal and stable,” along with
having “no concerns for firearms usage with appropriate licence.”
GUYSBOROUGH: The chief firearms officer who approved
Cpl. Lionel Desmond’s firearms possession and acquisition licence renewal
testified on February 20 she would have rejected the soldier’s application if
she had been more aware of his severe mental illness.
GUYSBOROUGH: Retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond’s firearms
possession and acquisition licence was first flagged for review by firearms
officials in New Brunswick in 2014 after it was revealed the Afghanistan war veteran
didn’t disclose his complex diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder...
GUYSBOROUGH: Shifting the focus of the Desmond Fatality
Inquiry to the access to firearms, from access to health care services, a New
Brunswick RCMP officer who confiscated retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond’s rifle in
2015 testified he did so because he...
GUYSBOROUGH: The presiding judge overseeing the
fatality inquiry into the triple murder-suicide carried out by an Afghanistan
war veteran made it clear retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond “faced a large gap in
treatment” and that Veterans Affairs allowed him to “fall...
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: 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: The first civilian psychiatrist to meet
with retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond after he was released from the military’s care
testified Monday at the fatality inquiry looking into what caused him to kill
his mother, wife, daughter and himself, that...
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...
GUYSBOROUGH: The psychiatrist who assessed
retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond - just two days before he fatally shot his mother,
wife, and 10-year-old daughter before taking his own life - says the former
rifleman didn’t show any signs of acute psychosis...