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A tearful Richard Bain claimed Friday he has no memory of the night he allegedly fired his gun outside a Parti Québécois election victory celebration and admits the whole thing is a tragedy.

“For that tragedy I was on medication that my doctor knows and knew,” Bain told Quebec Superior Court during a hearing in which he asked to be freed on bail until his trial in January. “I got no, no memory of that tragedy. Nothing. Thirty-three hours after the event there’s a man dead, another man wounded. Are you crazy?”

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Bain, who is representing himself, said he needs to get out of jail in order to prepare for his case and contact experts to testify. Crown prosecutor Matthew Ferguson objected to bail, saying that although Bain has no criminal record, he has made no arrangements to stay somewhere if he should be freed.

The main Sûreté du Québec investigator in the Sept. 4, 2012, shooting testified at the hearing that the 64-year-old was seen on surveillance cameras in the area circling the downtown nightclub a couple of times before parking his truck.

Bain listened to the PQ victory celebration live on CBC Radio as he sat with his guns in his truck in the Metropolis parking lot, Sgt. Patrick Berthelot told court as he presented a slideshow of all police evidence in the case — something that is usually under publication ban at a bail hearing.