Deputy fire chief renews call to reopen SIRT probe into 2020 Onslow shooting

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Deputy fire chief renews call to reopen SIRT probe into 2020 Onslow shooting
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More than three years have done little to alleviate Darrell Currie’s frustration with what he considers a lack of accountability for the April 19, 2020 ...

STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSMore than three years have done little to alleviate Darrell Currie’s frustration with what he considers a lack of accountability for the April 19, 2020 RCMP shooting at the Onslow fire hall.

Approaching the fire hall at about 10:17 a.m. that day, the two constables — Terry Brown and Dave Melanson — saw David Westlake, the emergency management co-ordinator for Colchester County, wearing a reflective safety vest and standing beside a marked RCMP cruiser in the fire hall parking lot. Gagnon, who was sitting in the vehicle after backing into the parking lot earlier to provide security for the comfort centre being set up at the fire hall.

Greg Muise, Onslow fire chief, Darrell Currie, deputy chief, and Portapique resident Richard Ellison take questions about the Onslow fire hall shooting at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry in Halifax on Monday, April 11, 2022. - Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press Last week, Currie sent an email to Alonzo Wright, a senior Crown attorney who took over as SIRT director in January, requesting an explanation and timeframe for the next course of action on a previous request to reopen a SIRT investigation because of what Currie referred to as a “flawed” decision at the completion of an improperly conducted investigation.

Currie said in the email that the final SIRT report released publicly was simply “a narrative of the difficult day officers Brown and Melanson experienced. The Mass Casualty Commission, struck by the governments of Canada and Nova Scotia to find out what happened during the killing rampage, in its 3,000-page final report delivered earlier this year found that the RCMP command group did not recognize the gravity of the fire hall incident and failed to take the necessary steps to evaluate the circumstances of the shooting, secure the scene and evaluate the involved members’ capacity to continue with the critical incident response.

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