PORT HAWKESBURY: Following the triple murder-suicide that claimed the lives of retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond, his wife Shanna, his mother Brenda and his 10-year-old daughter Aaliyah on Jan. 3, 2017, Veterans Affairs conducted their own internal investigation.
GUYSBOROUGH: Nova Scotia’s chief firearms
office doesn’t have the authority to ask for an additional medical opinion
after reinstating a firearms licence, unless the applicant gets flagged by the
RCMP, a doctor, or a citizen from the community.
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....
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: The Afghanistan war veteran
who shot and killed his mother, wife and 10-year-old daughter in their Upper
Big Tracadie home on Jan. 3, 2017 did so from approximately one-metre away, a
pathologist testified on January 30.
PORT HAWKESBURY: Last week, two military psychiatrists explained for the first time, what personal care retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond received in the health care system of the military prior to his medical discharge in 2015.
PORT HAWKESBURY: A federal lawyer has defended the role of Veterans Affairs Canada in the lead up to the triple murder-suicide that rocked the small, tight-knit, historically Black community of Upper Big Tracadie on Jan. 3, 2017.
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...
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: 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...