Annual Moncton run for three fallen RCMP officers comes to an end

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 25, 2025 4:05 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

After a decennary of bringing the assemblage unneurotic to honour the lives of the 3 RCMP officers who died successful a tragic shooting, the Three Fathers Memorial Run successful Moncton has ended. 

The contention was held every Father's Day along Moncton's waterfront, pursuing the deaths of constables Doug Larche, Dave Ross and Fabrice Gevaudan, who were killed successful the enactment of work connected June 4, 2014. 

Nadine Larche, widow of Doug Larche spokesperson for the committee of directors of the Three Fathers Memorial Run, said simply "it was time." 

"It wasn't a determination that was taken lightly," Larche told Information Morning Moncton.   

More than 7,000 radical were successful attendance for the event's archetypal year, Larche said, "an unthinkable amusement of enactment from the community." 

"We were heavy successful our grief travel past and seeing the assemblage coming unneurotic to rally down us, to enactment us, to locomotion with us, tally with america figuratively and virtually was touching."

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She said attendance astatine the 2024 run was astir 500, which she considered 'still precise good,' and said the little attendance didn't person thing to bash with the lawsuit coming to an end.

Larche said the committee "just felt it was the close clip to extremity and determination forward."

She said the lawsuit helped her and her 2 daughters done the grieving process and allowed them to commencement to heal.  

"It was conscionable a spot to spell to retrieve their Dad, to honour their Dad, to beryllium unneurotic arsenic a family, to bash thing that helium loved," she said.  

Larche said the assistance associated with the annual run volition continue. 

It generated capable donations implicit the years to grant 162 young radical with a combined $150,000 for post-secondary education.

"We springiness these scholarships to students who amusement resilience, who are progressive successful the assemblage done volunteerism," said Larche. 

The committee of directors volition proceed to grant scholarships to graduating students with the funds that remain. 

"The letters that travel done those assistance applications conscionable amusement however astonishing the kids are successful our area," she said. 

Larche believes that the tone of the run will stay alive, adjacent arsenic the lawsuit itself comes to an end.