A Saint John police officer has been awarded a Chief’s Commendation for responding to a stabbing at a home in the city and attending to the victim back on New Year’s Eve.
Constable Tanya Lawlor tells CHSJ News it’s an absolute privilege and honour to be recognized but moreso it’s an honour to serve the citizens of Saint John. She says it’s a team effort so to be recognized individually is humbling.
Cst. Lawlor says she can’t say much about the incident because it’s still before the courts, though she says it was a critically injured person.
“However you enter is where you kind of wind up in the fray…and in this case myself and Cst Rick LeBlanc we happened to be the first two to the victim,” Cst. Lawlor says, “so anytime like that the victim is always first, it doesn’t matter.”
CHSJ News can tell you that police responded to a home on Sherbrooke Street on that date and found a man inside with a serious stab wound to his upper body. 22-year-old Ross Joseph Veneau died in hospital from his injuries. 19-year-old Brodie John White has been charged with second-degree murder.
