Evening before the incident, parents had confronted Paul Nicholas Russell over concern he was not taking his medication, trial hears
The mother of a man on trial for opening fire on the Vanderhoof RCMP detachment 1 1/2 years ago gave an account Tuesday of the trouble they had managing his mental health issues over the months and days leading up to the incident.
Her son, the oldest of three children and who goes by the name "Nick," was taken to the hospital in Vanderhoof and, with his consent, he was admitted into the psychiatric ward at University Hospital of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. "That seemed to settle Nick sort of," she said. "But he was kind of slow and sluggish and had a lot of troubles with short-term memory."
On the evening before the day of the incident, Russell was at his parents home to help his father with a task. But he seemed confused and unable to grasp what they were supposed to do. A confrontation followed when his parents raised concern that he might have been drinking and had not kept in touch with them.
During cross examination, she confirmed her son had accumulated a collection of firearms over the years but could not say how many he owned. Crown counsel David Jardine suggested a combination of up to 26 guns and long guns.
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