A coroner’s inquest into the deaths of a Surrey couple killed by police during a hostage-taking in Whalley in 2019 opened April 16 in Burnaby with a written statement from the son of Randy E. Crosson, one of the deceased.
“My dad had a hard life and didn’t have the opportunities to get better and to get clean,” he told the inquest.
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