Jury selection began on Thursday at the opening of a high-profile murder trial in eastern Quebec involving a man charged with killing three people with a truck.
Forty-year-old Steeve Gagnon faces five charges, including three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder involving nine victims.
It took the court half a day to choose 14 jurors, only 12 of whom will ultimately be sequestered.
However, one of the jurors will need to be replaced, a process that will conclude on Friday morning at the courthouse in Rimouski, Que., northeast of Quebec City.
Gagnon turned himself in to police after a truck struck pedestrians on a main street of Amqui, Que., in March 2023.
That town is about 350 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.
The incident claimed the lives of 65-year-old Gérald Charest, 73-year-old Jean Lafrenière and 41-year-old Simon-Guillaume Bourget.
Superior Court Justice Louis Dionne will instruct jurors on Friday, with the first Crown witnesses to follow.
The trial is expected to last up to eight weeks.
