[VIDEO] He survives by a miracle to nine balls

Claudia Berthiaume

Sunday, 22 October, 2017 08:00

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Sunday, 22 October, 2017 08:00

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A jury of Saint-Jerome has seen this week the striking images of the attempted murder, extremely violent, to which the ex-hockey player Dannick Lessard has miraculously survived.

“On October 28, 2012, 4:06:58, I had the body pierced with nine bullets fired by an attacker disguised as Batman,” said the man, 39-year-old into the game.

Therefore, the jury of 10 men and two women in charge of the fate of the accused Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau was clinging to the lips of the ex-brawler of the League north american hockey.

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Investigators have identified traces of a bullet near the entrance to the bar.

On the night of October 28, 2012, Mr. Lessard was employed as the safety manager at the bar dancers, The Garage, Mirabel. The hotel was full at the end of the week of Halloween.

During his rounds, the colossus has noticed a man puny wearing a mask of Batman, who consumed beer only.

When the safety manager has left The Garage, around 4 p.m., he reviewed the famous Batman in the parking lot. The stage’s rip-roaring romp that followed was filmed by the surveillance cameras in the bar.

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Dannick Lessard has spent 3 weeks in the hospital after the shooting.

“Heille chum “

“Heille chum, could you order me a taxi, my lift does not happen,” he would have said to the masked man. Lessard turns to transmit the request to the doorman.

“I’m reviré and I saw a weapon in my field of vision. I lifted the right arm, and I arched the back to back to protect me. I have received three bullets in the elbow. Otherwise it was my head that would have taken the bullets “, he testified in front of justice France Charbonneau.

Lessard has dark towards his attacker, who shot him three bullets in the chest. The giant lost his footing, but he got up instantly. He received a bullet to the left thigh, which made it fall to its knees. Then, he took a step towards his attacker, but has returned back to the main entrance of the bar, where the bouncer was urged to take refuge.

Seeing this, the shooter is launched in pursuit of her and has hit two bullets in the back before fleeing.

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The shooter is the watchtower in the entrance of the bar before closing.

Excruciating pain

“The pain was excruciating, it was burning everywhere,” illustrated man, 39-year-old, who has never lost consciousness.

At this time, he had no idea of the identity of the shooter.

But two weeks before her attempted murder, Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau would come to threaten him at his place of work : “All you deserve is a bullet between the eyes. “

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The shooter fled on current.

According to the account of Dannick Lessard, Hudon-Barbeau had a grudge against him. In 2006, the ex-hockey player was a bouncer at the bar Upperclub during a hectic evening, at the end of which Hudon-Barbeau has spent several years in prison. “He blamed me for not having changed my version of the facts in court,” he said to the jury.

A few weeks later, the right hand man of Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau, Ryan Wolfson, has been accused of attempted murder in the place of Dannick Lessard.

Man of 46 years has never been tried since it has obtained a stay of proceedings under the judgment in Jordan.

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He wore a mask of Batman during the shooting.

Escape

Known for escaping from prison in Saint-Jérôme by helicopter in march 2013, Hudon-Barbeau, 41 years old, is currently facing trial for having advised Wolfson of committing two murders and two attempted murders in 2012.

The Crown, represented by messrs Steve Baribeau and Alexis Marcotte-Bélanger, has been witness to Mr. Lessard, even if the jury does not have the task of judging the accused in the crime relating to them.

Contrary to Wolfson, “Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau had conflicts and problems with each of the victims, so a mobile to take on they” told Me Baribeau in the opening of the trial.