Calgary jury in Alberta highway shooting death hears closing arguments - BERITAJA

A Crown charismatic successful a second-degree execution proceedings successful Calgary told the assemblage that cipher other too the 2 accused could person committed a roadside shooting successful confederate Alberta that claimed the life of 1 man and wounded another.

“When you analyse each the grounds arsenic a whole, you must inquire yourself, are location immoderate different reasonable explanations?” charismatic Photini Popadatou said to the assemblage during closing arguments Thursday.

Arthur Wayne Penner and Elijah Blake Strawberry person pleaded not blameworthy to second-degree execution and 2 equipped robberies relating to a roadside shooting successful August 2024 wherever Colin Hough was killed and Mark Andres was injured.

Andres, a powerfulness institution worker, testified earlier the assemblage that the 2 men drove up while he worked beside a agrarian roadworthy eastbound of Calgary and 1 changeable him done the arm.

He besides described having a weapon pointed astatine his caput respective times earlier he was capable to flee.

Andres said the motortruck the 2 men were successful was past group connected fire.

Hough, who worked for Rocky View County, arrived astatine the segment and was fatally changeable earlier his motortruck was stolen.

“It’s a circumstantial lawsuit of personality and it’s the Crown’s position that the offences earlier you impact 2 shooters, 2 guns, 2 stolen vehicles, 2 robberies, 1 decease and some these men are responsible,” Popadatou said.

Hough was changeable 3 times. Video footage from a adjacent semi-trailer driver captured his last minutes pinch a fig moving crossed the intersection and collapsing successful the mediate of the road.

A .45-calibre slug was recovered wherever he had collapsed and a nine-millimetre ammunition casing was recovered adjacent wherever Andres was wounded.

Hough’s conveyance was later recovered abandoned. Penner, 37, was arrested 5 days later and Strawberry, 29, was recovered aft a period hiding successful a residence connected the O’Chiese First Nation.

“In immoderate ways, I consciousness for illustration I’ve fixed you a 2,000-piece puzzle and I’ve put it successful a container and I’ve shaken it and I’ve thrown it astatine you and we’ve spent the past 15 days putting those pieces together,” said Papadatou.

The assemblage is to perceive from lawyers for Penner and Strawberry later Thursday.

Deliberations are expected to statesman Friday.