The first police officer to enter a room where a woman was being held hostage told a B.C. coroner’s inquest that he saw her lying on a bed on top of her captor, who was holding a knife to her throat with a gun in his other hand.
Cpl. Chris Dibblee told the inquest jury Thursday that he almost immediately felt he would need to shoot Randy Crosson to save hostage Nona McEwan but initially didn’t think he could do so without hitting her too.
“This is what I was thinking; can I get to him before he cuts or stabs her with this knife, before he shoots her or before he shoots myself or one of my teammates as well,” he said.
“Though that’s secondary in our attempt compared to rescuing Nona.”
The jury has been hearing testimony this week about the March 2019 hostage situation in Surrey, B.C., …