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.