Accused cop killer Alain Bellefeuille’s rifle was legal: lawyer

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The rifle seized from the house of accused cop killer Alain Bellefeuille was lawfully owned, and he identified as 911 to report photographs fired following folks entered his household with flashlights close to 2 a.m. on Might 11, in accordance to his attorney.

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A few Ontario Provincial Law enforcement officers have been responding to a 911 contact on Laval Street in Bourget from a neighbour who explained they considered they heard a gunshot.

1 or much more OPP officers are believed to have entered the household. All three responding officers were shot.

One particular of the officers discharged their firearm and the Specific Investigations Device, Ontario’s police watchdog, is investigating.

Sgt. Eric Mueller was killed and the two other officers ended up injured. Bellefeuille has been billed with to start with-degree murder in the dying of Mueller, as well as two counts of tried murder.

Several hours right after the shootings, and before forensics were being finish, OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique said at a televised press convention the officers have been ambushed and shot.

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Bellefeuille, 39, suggests the law enforcement narrative is way off and that it was nearly anything but an ambush.

“This was not an ambush,” his lawyers John Hale and Cassandra Richards mentioned on his behalf previous week.

Bellefeuille’s lawyers firmly believe the OPP commissioner’s responses may taint the possible jury pool and thwart the accused killer’s ideal to a truthful trial.

“We have faith in that the public — together with potential jurors — will keep on being open to the chance of an alternate account of occasions,” the attorneys explained in a assertion.

Bellefeuille neither asked for nor anticipated the law enforcement to display up at his household in the center of the night, his attorneys said.

He had worked a full day in Orléans doing drywall and portray, and experienced just absent to bed.

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The lights were off and he was slipping asleep when just one or more officers entered his residence, in accordance to the assertion.

Bellefeuille was arrested and later on housed in solitary confinement. He continues to be in jail awaiting demo. He lived with a chocolate lab named Phoenix, who was brought to the Humane Society after his arrest and place up for adoption.

The OPP commissioner also told reporters that a long arm experienced been identified at the criminal offense scene but gave no other aspects.

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