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.