‘Falling like dominoes’: ERT officers expected to die in B.C. hostage-taking

Corporal Andrew Michaud figured he and at least two other police officers would die once they blasted open a bedroom door with a strip charge and rushed inside, knowing a suicidal hostage-taker with a gun was waiting for them on the other side, aiming to kill his girlfriend and them too.

Coroner Margaret Janzen is presiding over the inquest in Burnaby, at Coroners’ Court. It’s expected to run for two weeks, with a jury of four women and a man hearing testimony.The ERT officers took their place outside the small bedroom, with the first in line gripping a shield. “I don’t know what’s on the other end of the door,” he said. “I don’t know what we’re going to face inside. What I do know is that we’re going to go in – we’re going in under his terms – he knows in five minutes or less we’re going to come through that door and we’re going to come at him, and he has a hostage in there.”

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