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Justin Bourque’s videotaped confession to murdering three RCMP officers and an audio clip of a wounded officer screaming for help after she was shot are among more than 100 pieces of evidence that must be made public, a New Brunswick judge has ordered.
Bourque, 24, was sentenced in October to three consecutive life sentences with no chance of parole for 75 years after pleading guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder for killing three Mounties and injuring two others.
The video, posted to the CTV News website, shows Bourque casually and matter-of-factly describing his shooting rampage to police in Sackville, N.B.
At one points he hesitates detailing what happened, but says “I guess, why not.”
Throughout the interview, Bourque describes what he did and where he was going, at one point having a close encounter with an officer.
“He was gonna try ‘n take me down I guess but I don’t know what he was thinking obviously not very combat suave guy umm yup, I think it was three shots that landed on em.”
Bourque says he had 80 rounds available and fired about 18 shots.
When police asked Bourque about scaring people, he said he was telling bystanders not to worry about him “I’m not hurting civilians.”
Bourque also acknowledged he would have shot more officers if approached.
In his decision, In his decision, posted to on the Global News website, Justice David Smith wrote that he decided to release the evidence to the media because “the exhibits allow the public to go behind court decisions to see why the court decided what it did.”
Bourque killed constables David Ross, 32, Fabrice Gevaudan, 45, and Doug Larche, 40, and injured constables Darlene Goguen and Eric Dubois.
Agencies/Canadajournal
