B.C. coroner’s inquest hears from son of hostage taker [Video]

BURNABY, B.C. –

A British Columbia coroner’s jury has heard that a man who held his partner hostage and died in a spray of RCMP gunfire was a loving man who didn’t have the opportunity to “get clean” from his drug addictions.

A statement written by Jamie Perrin was read at the opening of the coroner’s inquest into the deaths of his father Randy Crosson and Crosson’s girlfriend Nona McEwan in a home in Surrey, B.C., in March 2019.

Perrin’s statement said his father had a hard life and “didn’t have the opportunities to get better and to get clean.”

“What you are about to hear is about a man on drugs, struggling with life. But this was not my dad. My dad was a loving, caring person who loved all us kids. I’m sorry for what he has done with life but hopefully today we can learn from this,” he said in …