Cousineau said that he had turned in for the night with his wife when, hours later, he was woken up. His wife was standing beside the bed looking out the window.
She said she thought she heard a gunshot and feared the worst for their neighbour. She called 911, her husband told the jury.
Then, together, they watched the awful events.
“We were in shock. Stepped away from the window and went down in the basement,” Cousineau testified.
“I was in shock,” he recalled.
But they went back upstairs, saying, “curiosity got the best of us.”
The neighbour told the jury he saw Bellefeuille on the deck, firing at the cruisers as one officer took cover before running away.
Mueller’s bodycam audio also captures the conversation between Bellefeuille and paramedics, who were on standby down the road, waiting for the scene to be safe before going in to help. No police, except the dying Mueller, were in the house.
Bellefeuille had disarmed himself and didn’t leave the scene. He invited paramedics into his home, “Officer down, officer’s down right here.” He told them to hurry and repeated, “come in, come in, he’s breathing still, he’s still breathing.”
The paramedics rushed out Mueller, and performed CPR on the way to the hospital, where the father and husband was pronounced dead.
The neighbour couldn’t recall any police sirens or “red and blue lights,” but he did remember seeing a police spotlight and a brief honk-honk that sounded like a horn.
Bellefeuille will take the stand in his own defence after the Crown rests its case.
gdimmock@postmedia.com
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