Sniper’s siege ends
NZPA-Reuter Quebec A sniper who shot and wounded two passers-by on Wednesday only a day after a Canadian soldier shot dead three people in Quebec’s provincial assembly, has surrendered, the police said.
Jean-Claude Nadeau, aged 39, surrendered unarmed after a siege of his house.
Nadeau, wearing what witnesses called an army jacket, had opened fire in a Quebec shopping district, slightly wounding a male pedestrian and a female motorist. He then fled to his home and barricaded himself in.
Nadeau told the police he had been troubled by last week’s shooting when a Canadian soldier sprayed the Quebec Assembly with sub-machine-gun fire, killing three and wounding 14.
The soldier, Denis Lortie, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of first-de-gree murder.
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