A police officer who arrested the suspect in Quebec City’s Halloween 2020 stabbing murders says the man was calm and cooperative.
Const. Audrey Boulet told a trial today Carl Girouard was compliant and appeared coherent moments after she arrested him in the early hours of Nov. 1, 2020.
Girouard is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder in connection with the sword attacks on Halloween night 2020.
The judge has told jurors that Girouard admits to the physical acts but will argue he was not criminally responsible at the time of the events because he was suffering from a mental disorder.
Boulet says Girouard refused to identify himself and told her to check his 2006 black Saturn vehicle parked near the Château Frontenac hotel.
The jury also heard today from Pierre-Luc Laflamme, a paramedic who tended to Girouard after his arrest, who also described the suspect’s demeanour as calm following the sword attacks.
