Tag: Emily Altmann
Witness testifies about women’s fear after fatal bush party shooting: ‘All scared’
They were so scared of a texted threat, they needed a plan. One of the young women who was in Emily Altmannâs car after the fatal shooting of Josue Silva at a southeast London bush party said she, Altmann and three other women made a plan in the car about what to say to police […]
Bush party homicide: Witness recalls threatening post-gunshot text message
The few seconds of frantic screams and shouts from a short cellphone video recorded inside Emily Altmannâs car echoed through the courtroom.
Witness describes screaming match between accused, girl at bush party
It was obvious to the people who were with her that Emily Altmann was angry. She and the group of women with whom she had gone to the bush party were walking out of the bush party, followed by another group who were making sure they were leaving. It was because Altmann got into a […]
Bush party murder trial: Pathologist describes teen’s fatal gunshot wound
It was one gunshot that killed Josue Silva.
Bush party murder trial jury shown knife found in accused’s vehicle
London police Sgt. Derek Hardman carefully pulled the large knife out of the box where it has been stored at police headquarters.
Witness reflects on not calling 911 after teen’s fatal shooting at London bush party
A woman who was involved in a romantic relationship with a London man accused of shooting a teenager at a bush party says she didnât contact police to tell them what she saw because she was loyal to “the wrong people.” Kaiah Edmonds, 21, took the stand for a second day Friday at the trial […]
Accused had gun in SUV en route to bush party where teen was shot dead: Witness
Kaiah Edmonds didnât think anything bad was going to happen as she drove toward a bush party in southwest London. The driver, Carlos Guera Guerra, was armed with a handgun and had a second weapon, a sword or a large knife, in his SUV, Kaiah told the court Thursday. Even after Guerra Guerra, a man […]
Witness holds firm under defence questioning at bush-party murder trial
As hard as he tried, Emily Altmannâs defence lawyer couldnât get Rachel Johnson to admit she was in a Snapchat video on her best friendâs phone. Thatâs because, she said repeatedly, it wasnât her. The video in question was found on the cellphone of Altmann’s best friend, Isabella Restrepo, and showed mere seconds of Restrepo […]
‘Innocent joke’ preceded fatal gunshot at large bush party: Witness
While hiding in the bushes in the darkness, they heard the pop. Then, everywhere there was chaos. Rachel Johnson, testifying Tuesday at the second-degree murder trial of Emily Altmann, 22, and Carlos Guerra Guerra, 23, described the scene at a southwest London bush party after a gunshot rang out and Western University student Josue Silva, […]
Witness admits to making mocking video before fatal bush-party shooting
A video from a London bush party where a teen was later shot dead, which a 21-year-old posted on social media, shows her own face and then a group of women, one of them with a purse. Emily Altmannâs defence lawyer, Nathan Gorham, asked several times why Isabella Restrepo made that short clip and why […]