During cross-examination last week, Beau Lamarre-Condon insisted he had not gone to Jesse Baird’s home intending to kill him.
“My only intention when I intentionally fired the first shot was for him to drop a knife with his right arm, so that he could not stab me in the throat and kill me,” he told the court.
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC asked whether he had intended to kill Baird when he fired.
“No,” Lamarre-Condon replied. “That’s exactly why I aimed for his right shoulder and not his centre body mass, because we are trained to shoot at the centre body mass to kill a person.”
“I did not want to kill Jesse, and that was a very, very clear thought that I remember to this day.”
“Shoot him in the shoulder so you don’t kill him. So he drops the knife.”
Lamarre-Condon continued to claim that Baird slashed him with a knife during a struggle.
“It did cut my body slightly. It was just a slash wound; slash wounds don’t scar,” he said.
Mr Hatfield asked whether he had drawn the alleged injury to police officers during the forensic examination carried out after his arrest.
“I maintained my legal right to silence,” Lamarre-Condon replied.
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He said he had expected the first shot to stop what he described as Baird’s attack.
Lamarre-Condon also rejected the suggestion that he had shot Baird in the back.
“I did not shoot Jesse Baird in the back. That is not accurate. That’s not the truth,” he said.
Mr Hatfield then asked: “You didn’t shoot him in the mouth or in the face?”
“I didn’t shoot him there, and I was completely unaware that a bullet had hit there first and then hit him in the right trap area,” Lamarre-Condon said. “It happened so quickly; there was lots of movement.”
Mr Hatfield put to Lamarre-Condon that shooting Baird “wasn’t necessary”.
He replied: “I stand by the first shot.”
“I’ve had lots and lots of time to reflect on this—the first shot was intentional, the second shot was not.”
Lamarre-Condon said Baird “did nothing to me to deserve being killed. Nothing at all.”
“Jesse did not deserve anything like that to happen to him.”
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