Five-year anniversary of Fredericton shooting

Thursday marks the five-year anniversary of a tragic shooting that rocked the country.

It was on this day in 2018 that four people, including two police officers, were killed outside of an apartment complex in New Brunswick’s capital.

Const. Sara Burns and Const. Robb Costello had been responding to a call of shots fired on the north side of Fredericton.

Civilians Donnie Robichaud and Bobbie Lee Wright were also killed in the shooting outside the Brookside Drive apartment complex.

“This event shook the Fredericton Police Force and altered the fabric of Fredericton as a whole, changing how residents feel within our beautiful city, and bringing a sense of community that hadn’t seemed necessary beforehand,” the Fredericton Police Force said in a statement on Thursday.

“Please pause for a quiet moment in their memory, and hug those you love tightly.”

The man who admitted to firing those fatal shots was found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the day we lost two of our members, Csts. Robb Costello and Sara Burns, alongside two civilians, Donnie Robichaud and Bobbi-Lee Wright. #WeRemember https://t.co/BzPNiTCpMU

— Fredericton Police (@CityFredPolice) August 10, 2023