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Posted: Feb 26, 2021 9:38 AM AT | Last Updated: February 26
On Jan. 3, 2017, veteran Lionel Desmond shot his daughter, mother, wife and then himself in a home in Upper Big Tracadie, N.S. An inquiry into the fatalities continued on Friday.(Dave Irish/CBC)
The military psychiatrist to first treat Lionel Desmond after he was released from the military said the veteran s post-traumatic stress disorder included dissociative events that would send him back to Afghanistan for minutes at a time.
Dr. Anthony Njoku, who testified Friday at the fatality inquiry in Nova Scotia, described Desmond s PTSD as severe when they met in 2015 and said he felt from the beginning Desmond would benefit from in-patient treatment.
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An inquiry investigating why a former soldier killed his family and himself in 2017 heard Friday from a psychiatrist who said there was an aspect of Lionel Desmond’s life he could not figure out.
Anthony Njoku was working at the Operational Stress Injury Clinic in Fredericton in August 2015 when he first met the former corporal, who had been released from the military because of his ongoing struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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