Psychiatrist puzzled by La Loche shooter motives
I’m as puzzled today as the day I first met him.”
These were some of the words spoken by a Declan Quinn, a court-ordered child psychiatrist who appeared via videoconference in a Meadow Lake courtroom this morning. Quinn was a Crown witness in a sentencing hearing for a young gunman who killed four and injured seven others in La Loche on January 22, 2016.
The now 19-year-old, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was at the hearing to determine whether he will face sentencing as an adult. This is the second week of hearings, with the first taking place May 16-19.
The youth pleaded guilty in October 2016 to the second-degree murders of brother Dayne and Drayden Fontaine, and to the first-degree murders of teacher Adam Wood and teacher’s aide Marie Janvier.