Public hearings to determine who will be able to participate in the upcoming Desmond Inquiry get underway in Guysborough Tuesday.
Members of the media and public are welcome to attend the hearings in person, but this stage of the proceedings will not be live-streamed.
Seating in the hearing room is limited, and family members will be given priority; there are two overflow sites with access to a video feed.
The hearings are set to start at the Guysborough Municipal Building at 9:30 a.m.; the inquiry itself is scheduled to get underway in September.
Lionel Desmond, a 33-year-old Afghan war veteran diagnosed with PTSD, killed his wife, daughter, mother and himself in their Upper Big Tracadie home in Jan. 2017.
Members of Desmond’s family have long said he didn’t get the help he needed from federal and provincial agencies.
Desmond served two tours of duty in Afghanistan in 2007.
