Officer in charge tells inquest everything possible was done to save B.C. hostage

The officer in charge when police in Surrey, B.C., killed a hostage taker and the woman he was holding says he believes he did everything possible to save her.RCMP Insp. Blair White told a coroner’s inquest on Wednesday the suspect, Randy Crosson, gave officers a deadline on when he would kill Nona McEwan, and a mental-health professional working with police believed the man wanted to die.White took the jury through police actions during the nine-hour standoff that dragged into the early morning hours of March 29, 2019.