BY KEITH LACEY
A Coniston man facing attempted murder charges after a violent rampage last weekend has agreed to undergo a 30-day psychiatric assessment.
Kelly L. Dusome, 39, was scheduled to have a bail hearing Friday at the Sudbury courthouse.
However, after talking with his lawyer, Herve Sauve, he agreed to undergo a 30-day psychiatric assessment at the North Bay psychiatric hospital.
Sauve said Friday his client suffers from manic depression and doesn?t remember much of what occurred last Sunday evening.
Dussome now faces 19 criminal charges, including three counts of attempted murder, after an additional 14 charges were filed against him Thursday.
He has also been charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, break and enter, theft over $5,000 and numerous driving offences.
Dussome was shot at by Greater Sudbury Police after he allegedly tried to run over two officers, who had approached a vehicle he had stolen earlier that evening.
The bizarre incident started at Dussome?s Coniston residence when police responded to a domestic dispute.
Dussome is charged with attempting to murder his spouse by using a knife.
After a 911 call was placed and before police arrived on the scene in Coniston, Dussome is alleged to have taken off from his residence on foot and stole a five-tonne truck from a nearby business, say police.
Dussome is then alleged to have driven along Highway 17 to the Markstay area. Police received numerous calls from residents reporting a reckless driver and about a man breaking into homes and slamming other vehicles with a truck.
When officers finally approached a five-tonne truck that matched the description of the stolen truck and one involved in the terrible driving, they approached the vehicle on Nepawassi Lake Road.
It?s alleged Dussome drove the vehicle directly at two officers, who responded by firing four bullets through the windshield of the vehicle.
Dussome was transported to hospital in Sudbury for self-inflicted injuries. None of the bullets fired hit Dussome during the incident, say police.
Sauve said he will determine the next course of action for his client once the 30-day assessment is complete.
