The World - News from March 27, 1987
A Canadian who killed three people when he sprayed the Quebec legislature with gunfire in May, 1984, pleaded guilty to reduced charges of second-degree murder. Denis Lortie, 27, also was allowed to plead guilty to nine counts of attempted murder. Sentencing was set for April 2. Another judge had refused to accept the second-degree murder guilty plea in February because he said Lortie may have been insane at the time of the shooting. Quebec Superior Court Justice Gaston Desjardins said he allowed the plea because he was convinced the former army corporal had made the decision of his own free will.
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