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| Corporal Barry Warren Lidstone
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Federal
End of Watch: Friday, January 6, 1978 Biographical Info
Age: 34
Tour of Duty: 12 years
Badge Number: 24526 Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Friday, January 6, 1978
Incident Location: New Brunswick
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: Not available Corporal Lidstone was shot and killed while investigating a domestic disturbance in Hoyt, New Brunswick.
Corporal Lidstone and his partner Constable Joseph Brophy were gunned down when they tried to intervene in a domestic dispute.
The situation appeared initially to have calmed down, when the suspect was asked to go into his bedroom. When unchallenged, he did so, and returned with a hunting rifle. He shot both officers dead, and then killed his wife as well.
This incident was studied extensively in the training of subsequent RCMP recruits.
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