BRIDGEWATER, N.S. – A judge has ruled that a Nova Scotia man accused of fatally shooting his estranged wife before attempting suicide is mentally fit to stand trial.
Wayne Paul Eisnor of Barss Corner faces a charge of first-degree murder in the death of his 42-year-old wife, Tina Mae, in June 2010.
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Eisnor is accused of shooting the woman twice as she sat in her car near a grocery store in New Germany, N.S., before he shot himself in the head.
His wife died that night in a Halifax hospital.
He was found unfit to stand trial in October 2010 because of brain damage caused by the self-inflicted gunshot wound.
But Crown lawyer Alonzo Wright argued Eisnor’s condition had improved significantly since then and a fitness hearing was later held in Bridgewater provincial court.
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