Lamarre-Condon told the court the first shot he fired at Baird was deliberate and “was the right move; I stand by it”. He was trying to disarm Baird, he said.
“I was pinned up against the kitchen wall,” he said. “I essentially had Jesse with his left forearm pinning me up against the wall and he was swinging around the knife.”
The accused said that “at certain points Jesse’s left forearm was against my chest and then he would move it and then he would swing the knife with his right hand and … many times during this struggle both my hands were on his right hand trying to hold the knife away.”
He reached for his gun after Baird slashed his shirt with a knife, he said during cross-examination.
“I just maintained my left hand holding his right arm away from me while I reached for my firearm,” he said.
“I just remember pointing and aiming towards his right shoulder. We were close. At this point, I think I pushed him, I had the gun in my right hand and I had nudged him back to get a good further shot at him at his right shoulder, so, anywhere from 20 centimetres to a metre, but I still had a hold of his right hand with my left hand.”
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