Shooter intended to kill RCMP who entered Coquitlam condo, B.C. murder trial told

Bellemare’s lawyer will say they’re unreliable witnesses because they’re police and there were inconsistencies between their testimonies, Flannigan said. But he said inconsistencies are inevitable and that proves they weren’t colluding and that “you don’t have to resolve every inconsistency to accept the witnesses’ evidence.”

He also said Bellemare’s “spontaneous utterances” are relevant to his intent. When the officers say they want to take their shot colleague from the suite, he says, “Your member is dead, there’s a hole in his head” or “He’s dead, he has a hole in his head.”

And while being arrested by Const. Amber Carlson, he tells her to “f— off.”

She then asks him, “How could you possibly shoot a police officer, didn’t you hear us” or “didn’t you hear us say police,” and he says “no.”

She then gives him the standard police warning and he again tells her to “f— off,” said Flannigan.

His “no” answer shouldn’t raise doubt about whether he knew O’Brien was an officer “when you take into account that it’s between two belligerent f— offs.”

“So, when, if you accept that he said he didn’t hear they were police, when you look at all the evidence, you can reject that,” he said. “It does not raise a reasonable doubt.”

Flannigan also said he dismisses any possible defence suggestions that the shootings were accidental or that Bellemare was affected by intoxication or any mental illness.

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