The Crown has wrapped its case in the trial of a 26-year-old man charged with using a sword to murder two people and injure five others on Halloween night 2020 in Quebec City’s historic district.
Carl Girouard is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Suzanne Clermont, 61, and François Duchesne, 56, in the Old Quebec neighbourhood on Oct. 31, 2020. He is also charged with five counts of attempted murder.
Jurors heard from a final prosecution witness on Thursday—a forensic pathologist who described in graphic detail the wounds she found on the bodies of Duchesne and Clermont.
Dr. Caroline Tanguay says her examination found 13 wounds on Duchesne and 22 on Clermont, with the cause of death of both victims being multiple trauma inflicted by a sharp weapon.
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