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Sep 30, 2019 12 tweets 2 min read Read on X
I’m at the Grant Harvey Centre in #Fredericton for jury selection. The jury will determine if Matthew Raymond is fit to stand trial. @CTVAtlantic Image
Raymond is accused of killing four people in a shooting on the city’s north side in August 2018.
Jury selection is at the arena because of the large number of potential jurors called for the case.
We’re beginning with a pre-trial hearing in a dressing room of the arena. Reporters are standing at the doorway of the room, while lawyers are sitting at tables set up in a makeshift courtroom.
We’re just waiting for Justice Fred Ferguson to arrive.
Outside this makeshift courtroom, potential jurors are still lined up, well outside the doors of the arena. Image
Raymond has been brought into the dressing room. He’s wearing the orange jumpsuit, unshaven.
Alison Menard is here as a friend of the court. Nathan Gorham is here has Raymond’s lawyer.
Justice Ferguson has arrived.
Much of what’s being discussed is the jury process that will occur today.
And Justice Ferguson says he’s going to put a publication ban on everything said during the fitness hearing. That hearing will begin once the jurors are chosen.
Court has adjourned. Raymond has left the room.

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Oct 22, 2020
Insp. Kimberly Quartermain, a critical incident commander, says it was a male who was barricaded today in his own home, but voluntarily left around 3:40 today.

@CTVAtlantic
It was a neighbour who contacted the police. They saw a male with a firearm. Not sure if it was outside or inside the residence. The male is 28 years old, and police “have had previous contact” with him.
Police are aware of two long guns, a bullet proof vest and knives in the residence. The residence is still being secured. No shots were fired.
Read 5 tweets
Oct 22, 2020
I'm back in court this afternoon for the Matthew Raymond trial -
Jury is in the room, cross examination has continued of Alex Pate. The Crown is asking about prior interviews/court appearances where Raymond was upset, spoke out, and in some cases, yelled during a proceeding.
We're listening to another audio recording, from June 18, 2019.

Justice Ferguson is explaining to Raymond that what he says in the courtroom can be used as evidence. Raymond says he has been asking to speak to his lawyer.
Crown completes its questions.
Defence begins again.
Read 7 tweets
Oct 21, 2020
Back from lunch.
Jury is in the room.

Brother-in-law is still on the stand.
We can identify him only as Jeffrey because of a publication ban.

He says he recalls Raymond talking about the earth being flat and conspiracies that high-level government workers ran the world.
"When we came in he always told us to turn our phones off or put them in the truck off the car...I told him no one's listening to him, no one cares...he just had it in his head that he knew things."
Read 31 tweets
Oct 21, 2020
In court for the Matthew Raymond trial. Jury is in the room.

Alex Pate will not be on the stand this morning. Instead, family members of Raymond’s are taking the stand. @CTVAtlantic
First, Raymond’s sister. She’s the youngest of three siblings, Raymond is the oldest. The middle brother is in Victoria.
She’s audibly and visibly nervous on the stand. There is a publication ban on her last name.
Read 78 tweets
Sep 23, 2020
We’ve resumed testimony in the trial of Matthew Vincent Raymond.

Brendan Doyle has been excused.

Crown has now called Justin McLean to the stand.
McLean says he lived at 237 Brookside Dr. He says he was waking up to go to work on the morning of August 10.

“I woke up to the sound of gunshots.”
McLean is being shown an aerial photo of 237 Brookside.

He’s asked which building and where his unit was.

Says he was in the basement of one of the buildings. He looked out the window:

“I saw a police officer with a gun pointed upwards.”
Read 47 tweets
Sep 23, 2020
Court has resumed this morning for the trial of Matthew Vincent Raymond.

I feel I should say, some of what I’ll be tweeting over this trial will be difficult to read and potentially triggering. Please keep that in mind if you’re following along. (File photo)

@CTVAtlantic
“We didn’t know what we were going in for...”

A paramedic who responded August 10/2018 is the first to take the stand this morning. She says at about 10:30 this morning “things actually started happening.”
She describes learning that her ambulance would be transporting the suspect to hospital. It was her second day on the ambulance.

“I was only in charge of taking vitals...and then they started...doing their head to toe assessment.”

“He was very coherent, very calm.”
Read 39 tweets

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