Suffering from ‘delusions’: court hears about accused in Amqui truck attack trial

By The Canadian Press

The defence has rested its case in the murder trial of a Quebec man accused of using his truck to kill three pedestrians and injure nine others in Amqui, in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of the province.

Steeve Gagnon, 40, pleaded not guilty to five charges, including three counts of first-degree murder.

He is accused of accelerating his truck onto the sidewalk in Amqui on March 13, 2023, killing three men and injuring nine others.

The last witness for the defence was a psychiatrist who met Gagnon last September.

Dr. Samuel Gauthier testified that the accused had been suffering from persecutory delusions for several years, but denied that he had intended to hit anyone on the day of the tragedy.

Quebec Superior Court Judge Louis Dionne told the jury that closing arguments would be heard on Wednesday.

–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews

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