Mounties recall confused response to Moncton massacre: ‘We’re heavily out-armed’
MONCTON, N.B. — A hushed Moncton courtroom heard the alarmed voice Wednesday of a senior Mountie calling for help as “heavily out-armed” officers tried to track a gunman out to assassinate police.
“We’re going to need everything we’ve got,” Cpl. Peter MacLean pleaded in a June 4, 2014, recording played at the RCMP’s Labour Code trial. “We’re heavily out-armed here.”
Then, to other officers, MacLean radioed: “Keep cover guys. He’s got long guns. Ours are too short for him. We don’t have the artillery for this.”
MacLean testified Wednesday that officers “didn’t have anything to match” Justin Bourque’s semi-automatic rifle in the Moncton massacre, which left three Mounties dead and two others wounded.