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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:58:55 -0500
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tsuu T'ina Inquest Connie & Ty Jacobs
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Thursday, March 18, 1999
Hostage strategy taken
Jacobs' inquiry hears from ERT boss
By NOVA PIERSON, CALGARY SUN
TSUU T'INA NATION -- Police acted as though Connie
Jacobs was holding her children hostage, an RCMP Emergency
Response Team commander told her fatality inquiry yesterday.
Insp. Dennis Massey said ERT members viewed it as a
"hostage-barricaded situation" after being called out to what was
later found to be the fatal shooting of Connie, 37, and her
nine-year-old son Ty.
RCMP Const. Dave Voller, helping social workers apprehend
the children, exchanged fire with Connie, killing her and Ty
almost instantly, March 22, 1998.
"Connie Jacobs already showed a demonstration of the ability to
fire a weapon," said Massey.
"We'd have to take into consideration those children not
knowingly being held as hostages could be used ... or the mother
could act as 'if I can't have these children, nobody can have these
children.' "
During cross-examination by Jacobs' family lawyer, Terry
Semenuk, Massey said his first-response team didn't consider
whether Connie was a criminal.
"My concern was that she was a threat to life."
Massey said the team wouldn't have engaged a negotiator unless
they'd found Connie alive when they entered the home about 3
1/2 hours after the shooting.
But he said the fact they believed she'd been hit by Voller's shot
didn't mean she wasn't a threat to police.
"We didn't know the degree of the injury.
"If she'd had a flesh wound and was bleeding out, she'd still be
capable of firing a weapon."
The inquiry continues today.
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