EDMONTON — A woman has told an Edmonton murder trial she sought mental health help for her husband several hours before the fatal stabbing of a seven-year-old girl.
David Moss, who is 36, is seeking a ruling that he is not criminally responsible of second-degree murder in the May 2020 killing of Bella Rose Desrosiers.
His wife, Tracy Couture-Strarosta, says Moss called on the morning of the killing saying he was going to kill himself and go to jail for a very long time.
She says she called Edmonton's Police and Crisis Response Team and asked them to take him somewhere, but she had no luck.
Later that morning, Couture-Strarosta said the child's mother, Melissa Desrosiers, volunteered to take Moss to the hospital to get him help and texted her later that evening that Bella had been killed.
Couture-Strarosta is to continue her testimony later today.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 8, 2022.
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