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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:06:38 -0500
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tsuu T'ina Inquest: Connie & Ty Jacobs
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Wednesday, March 10, 1999
Panel hears RCMP rushed to help
injured Jacobs
By NOVA PIERSON, CALGARY SUN
TSUU T'INA NATION -- An RCMP first-response team
fast-tracked its entry into Connie Jacobs' home after the officer
who shot her said she may have been hit.
Cpl. Ed Turco, in charge of the Emergency Response Team, told
the fatality inquiry into the deaths of Connie and son Ty, 9, that his
officers took shortcuts to speed things up.
"(Const. Dave Voller) advised me he had exchanged gunfire with
Mrs. Jacobs and she was probably hit," Turco said yesterday.
"The fact she was probably struck in my mind meant I had to do
an entry as soon as possible."
Turco said ERT members were briefed as they suited up, didn't try
to make contact with Connie, bypassed a radio check and told
snipers to halt the usual radio description of the scene.
Instead of using ERT members farther away from the staging
area, Turco went in himself and took a city police member when it
was decided two extra officers were needed.
Connie, 37, and Ty died minutes after she ex-changed fire with
Voller, shortly after 7 p.m., March 22, 1998.
Voller had been called in to help social workers take Connie's
children from the home.
In a later briefing of the ERT members, Voller said he didn't know
if he'd struck Connie, according to testimony yesterday by Const.
James Stewart.
Stewart said Voller said he'd exchanged fire with Connie: "She
went down and he saw something black come up and go back
down."
It was three hours from when the ERT was paged until the 11
p.m. entry of the house.
Turco said that's a normal amount of time for the volunteer RCMP
corps to assemble.
He said Calgary Police Service's tactical team may have made it in
an hour -- but only in the best-case scenario.
The inquiry continues today.
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