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St-Amour estimates he did it three to five times before he complied with an officer request to stop.

While on the way to the Sebringville detachment a short time later, he said that phrase again numerous times and again asked if Baker was OK, St-Amour said.

“He seemed stressed. He was sobbing at times. He was upset, no doubt about that,” St-Amour said.

St-Amour was working the night shift when several 9-1-1 calls came in before 10 p.m. regarding a male that was hurt. Soon after, there were reports of a shooting. As he was driving to the scene, the dispatcher was giving updates including possible locations of the gun and the shooter.

St-Amour was instructed to approach the scene as high risk when he arrived at 10:25 p.m.

When he got to the house, there were three men outside. Schweitzer, his father Murray Schweitzer and Rusty Baker, Tyler Baker’s father, he said. When he asked the elder Schweitzer and elder Baker for a location on the gun and the shooter, he didn’t get an answer, he said.

He directed them to approach. He put cuffs on Murray Schweitzer and put him in the back of the cruiser. Other officers had arrived, and Michael Schweitzer was also put in the back of St-Amour’s cruiser by another constable.

St-Amour said he rolled the rear-passenger window down, which is the side Schweitzer was sitting on, and took up a position near the back window.

As two senior officers went into the house, St-Amour said he heard Schweitzer asking about Tyler Baker and saying, “I can’t believe what I’ve done.”