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Sutton said what he remembered hearing was something like, "Stop, stop, don't move, stay right there." At first, he said, he didn't realize the men surrounding Vienneau's car with guns drawn were police.  "I actually thought it was some kind of gang war or something," he said. One of the people was "pretty rough-looking," said Sutton. Sutton turned away briefly to put some distance between himself and what seemed a dangerous situation. Then his fellow engineer called his name so he looked back and saw Vienneau's white car "slewing" toward the other side of the road. It was zigzagging becaus...

The next thing she knew, she said, it seemed like they were being accosted by terrorists. Two men with firearms got out of a vehicle in front of them. She saw no indication they were police officers and she heard a gunshot. Based on previous testimony, those men were Const. Patrick Bulger and Const. Mathieu Boudreau. Basque said Vienneau pushed her head down under the dash and told her to get down. She felt the car turning left and told Vienneau to step on it. Annick Basque, Michel Vienneau’s former common-law spouse, leaves the coroner’s inquest Friday morning in Beresford, N.B. (Pascal ...

Posted: Jan 15, 2021 11:12 AM AT | Last Updated: January 15 Michel Vienneau, 51, of Tracadie, had come off a Via Rail train from Montreal and was in his car when he was shot and killed by police.(Submitted by Nicolas Vienneau) A coroner's inquest has been scheduled to examine the events that led Bathurst police to fatally shoot Michel Vienneau six years ago.  Chief Coroner Jérôme Ouellette will preside over the inquest scheduled from April 27 to May 7 at a venue in Beresford, near Bathurst, according to a news release issued Friday.  A jury will hear the evidence, presented publicly du...