Public visitation today for Moncton Mounties
Posted Jun 9, 2014 06:11:35 AM.
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The New Brunswick RCMP tragically lost three of their officers last week, and today the public can pay their respects to them.
Cst. Dave Ross, Fabrice Gevaudan and Douglas Larche were gunned down last week in Moncton after responding to a report of an armed man in a residential neighbourhood.
The pastor of the New Brunswick church where Cst. Ross was a member of said it’s time for the healing to begin. Jerry Reddy led the service at Hillside Baptist Church yesterday in Moncton, and said the community is grieving.
“To lose three Mounties, we think about children growing up without their dads and just the loss and trauma to colleagues and to friends and neighbours,” he said.
Amy Klassen, a friend of Cst. Ross, said Ross was a devoted family man and a friend to everyone he met.
“Those of your who know him will remember he flipped his sunglasses on backwards and hung them on the back of his head, and gave us a big smile and a firm handshake,” she said.
Moncton’s Wesleyan Celebration Centre on St. George Blvd. will have its doors open to the public for a visitation service today from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. A regimental funeral service will be held tomorrow.
As the investigation continues, New Brunswick RCMP are asking the public for any original photos or videos of the shooting, and will also be interviewing people who live in the city’s north end in the coming weeks.
Cpl. Chantal Farrah says police are also asking Moncton residents to have a look around their properties for evidence or anything out of the ordinary.
“Any object, article, fluid that you do not recognize, that is not yours — you call the police, it’s as simple as that,” said Farrah.
