Posted: Dec 17, 2020 6:22 PM AT | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
Victims of the shooting in Fredericton, from left to right: constables Robb Costello, 45, and Sara Burns, 43, and civilians Donnie Robichaud, 42, and Bobbie Lee Wright, 32.
Sara Burns's 12-year-old son Anderson sat at a table, staring at a speck of dust as people brought food and condolences.
That morning, on Aug, 10, 2018, he had a typical start to the day. Then his father walked into his room in tears and told him his mother, a Fredericton police constable, had been shot and killed in the line of duty.
Anderson described feeling disbelief, then despair in a letter read by a Crown prosecutor on Thursday. It was among eight victim impact statements read at Matthew Raymond's disposition hearing in the Court of Queen's Bench.