Court issues order to suppress details about fatal Fredericton shooting

A New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench judge has issued an order, prohibiting the publication or broadcast ofpreviously reported detailsabout the Fredericton shootingthat claimed the lives of two city police officers and two civilians last Friday.

The information came from legally obtained documents filed in Fredericton provincial court.

CBCNews plans to challenge the retroactiveorder, imposed late Monday afternoon byJustice Judy Clendening.

In the meantime, the media cannot "publish, broadcast, re-broadcast, transmit, re-transmit, or disseminate" any of the information already in the public domain, according to the order.

It also requires media outlets to remove from publication any of the information from the court document that had already been published.

The order remains in effect"until the termination of criminal proceedings" related to the case, which could take months, possibly years.

The accused gunman,Matthew Vincent Raymond, 48,is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Const. RobbCostello, 45, Const. SaraBurns, 43, and civilians Donnie Robichaud, 42, and Bobbie Lee Wright, 32.

Costello and Burns were killed whileresponding toreports of gunfire at an apartment complex on the 200 block ofBrooksideDriveat7:10 a.m. AT on Friday.

They were the first on the scene and were gunned down as they approached two civilians who were lying on the ground.Robichaud andWright, who had recently become a couple, also died Friday.

Raymond is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 27. He remains in custody.