Still More Questions In Bush Death
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The Inquest into the death of 22 year old Ian Bush adjourned yesterday in Houston with as many questions remaining as had been asked during the four days of testimony into the RCMP shooting death.
The final witness to take the stand was Constable Darren Woroshelo; he was Constable Paul Koester’s mentor at the detachment. He said he though that Koester was an above average constable. "I do speak with some authority in the matter" said Woroshelo , who was an auxiliary constable in the RCMP in 100 mile for 6 years before joining the force, and had spent two and half years in the service before Koester arrived. He said "I also was a manager at Sears when I was 19 and had to hire and fire a lot of people , so I've had a lot of experience."
Woroshelo told the jury that he had attended a wedding for Bush’s sister and Ian was the Master of Ceremonies at the event.
He described the events leading up the shooting by saying he and Koester had been going along and dumping liquor from bottles near the hockey game as the first game of the season was under way, "We wanted to make our presence known".
Asked how many people where charged with open liquor that night, he said "The only one was Ian Bush, who had been handcuffed and taken to the police station in the back of a locked police vehicle after he had given a phony name to Koester on two occasions."
When he arrived back at the detachment following the shooting he said "I told Koester who was crying and shaking, I said to him I was proud that you are still alive, sometimes you have to do what you have to do”. He said Koester was a mess, he said to Woroshelo, "Look what happened in Pincher Creek," referring to where a Police officer who went to jail for shooting a prisoner in an in custody death. "I told him that they were totally different, I told him he should speak to a lawyer and go from there."
With that, witnesses heard the inquest had been adjourned until July 3rd in Houston.
Counsel for the family Howard Rubin asked if Woroshelo could appear at that time to produce the gun used in the shooting or one similar to see how it operated. The Inquest was told that Woroshelo has been transferred to Mackenzie and so another office will produce a similar police service revolver.
Members of the family left the court room saying they still didn’t have any grasp on what took place. Linda Bush says ther are many questions that have been left unanswered "The whole thing took place in 39 seconds that included the fight; no one has bothered to ask how Koester was going faint from having no breath for that short period of time? Why where there so many statements written and then in one case destroyed? What is the explanation for Ian’s shirt to be up in one forensic picture but not in another? Why a beer bottle was suddenly discovered in the room with Ian’s finger print on it, when Koester said he had completely searched Ian before putting him in the police vehicle? If the crime scene remained untouched and they left my son’s body in that room for now what appears to be a day and half, why are the pictures different?"
Linda Bush concluded saying "That I am tired of the police saying that Ian had run from the police. They didn’t charge him; they certainly knew where he lived and this innuendo is designed to simply destroy my dead son’s name."
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Posted by: heidi1555 on May 26 2007 11:41 AM
Both of them likely getting good character references.
Where are the facts of the incident? 29 seconds for an altercation that should not have happened in the first place. Who was there with a stop watch? Are we sure it was not 27 seconds or 34 seconds?
"I also was a manager at Sears when I was 19 and had to hire and fire a lot of people , so I've had a lot of experience"
Hmmmmm .... and what was the training given? And how does a manager of whatever sales/service department relate to evaluating someone in the RCMP? Was Koester practicing good client relations and service?
I wonder if the RCMP had not shown force to curb drinking that night, whether riots would have errupted and people would have been killed? Was the drinking going to be that bad? Perhaps the whole night started off with excessive force and that excessive force culminated in a death. Was this an attitude problem right from the start? Us versus them in a small town with little to do but confront each other? Has anyone set an environmental/attitude scene at the inquest?