Tag: Homicide
Bush bash homicide trial: Defence challenges key witness’s account of shooting
Jessica Falardeau recalled in her testimony the two masked men who showed up to settle a score were different in stature.
Man pleads not guilty to Christmas party killing as unusual re-trial begins
Miguel Chacon-Perez repeated the same plea as he did six years ago when he went on trial again for second-degree murder.
Accused told investigator he heard ‘pop’ at bush party and then ran
London police Det. Jim MacLachlan looked across the desk at Carlos Guerra Guerra and asked if he wanted to try to explain what happened in the bush again. The officer had been interviewing Guerra Guerra for more than an hour after going to his motherâs home with two search warrants, one to search Guerra Guerraâs […]
Bush bash homicide: Witness testifies he left after seeing masked man with machete
A man who was at a bush party where a teen was fatally shot says he decided to leave after seeing a masked man hitting a tree with a machete, a court heard.
Bush bash homicide: Witness recalls feeling scared, defends not calling 911
As the bush party was winding down, Jonathan Lopez had a bad feeling. He was standing with friends near a big bonfire in the clearing of a southwest London wooded area just off Pack Road in the early morning of July 31, 2021. âThe night was ending because we couldnât see very well,â he testified […]
Bush bash homicide: Young man recalls ‘freaking out’ after friend’s shooting
The quick phone call at the bush bash from a friend who’d just left the party made Braedan Bubb-Clarke feel âthreatened and endangered.â
Accused upset, fearful after bush party shooting, friend testifies
The video played for murder trial witness Mackenna Bain showed her talking to a London police officer about a week after Josue Silva was shot to death. By then, Bain already had made a couple of police statements. In the first one, she didnât talk about anything beyond an argument over a spilled drink and […]
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.
Mother and daughter charged with accessory to murder in Londoner’s death
Two women charged in connection with a homicide at a west London apartment building are mother and daughter, says a former family friend.