After listening to from 18 witnesses over 6 days, a court docket in Saint John has really in the end learnt via among the many implicated within the fatality of Justin Breau.
On Monday, the Crown grew to become a part of proof a group of taped discussions Donald Walker had with authorities.
Walker, 52, and Charles William Shatford, 49, get on check for first-degree homicide in Breau’s fatality onAug 17, 2022.
The very first dialogue was tape-recorded whereas authorities applied a search warrant 2 days afterward, at Walker’s dwelling, at 15 Celebration St.
Two numerous different discussions had been tape-recorded by authorities onSept 15 and 16, 2022, when a further legislation enforcement agent went again to Walker’s dwelling to talk to him.
Walker makes it clear that he didn’t corresponding to Breau and Breau didn’t like him.
He knowledgeable the police officer that Breau killed his best friend, Mark Shatford.
‘ I desired him dead’
“I hate the guy,” Walker knowledgeable the legislation enforcement agent all through theSept 16 assembly.
“And trust me. I wanted him dead.”
But Walker claimed “lots of people wanted him dead.”
He knowledgeable a further legislation enforcement agent that he may not have really suched as Breau, nonetheless he refuted eliminating him.
Walker moreover claimed he cared for Breau’s sweetheart, Megan Ross, that was fighting dependency issues, whereas Breau remained in jail.
Ross and Breau resided in a top-floor home on this Charles Street construction. (Graham Thompson/ CBC)
He claimed he additionally conserved her life when she overdosed in his home. Walker claimed the very first level Ross did after being restored was to request for fentanyl.
Health Canada explains fentanyl as an opioid painkiller highly effective enough that “a few grains can be enough to kill you.”
Ross, 27, was again on the bottom on Monday early morning.
She previously affirmed that she was with Breau of their Charles Street home when 3 lined up males ruptured in and stabbed him to fatality.
But on Thursday and Friday, Ross had downside protecting in thoughts a variety of what happened all through and after the assault, so Crown district lawyer Joanne Park allowed her overview data of her assembly with authorities and permit her see a video clip of it.
But completely nothing appeared to assist jog Ross’s reminiscence of the event or what she knowledgeable authorities within the very first 2 hours after the case.
Girlfriend known as Walker, police officer’s notes state
On Monday, Park checked out a passage from notes made byDet Const. Duane Squires quickly after he bumped into Ross on the Saint John Regional Hospital onAug 17, 2022.
Squires claimed he mosted prone to the well being heart to tell Breau’s mother, Susanne, concerning her child’s fatality. He claimed he consulted with Susanne Breau and Jerry Cromwell, that’s been known as a buddy of Walker’s, in a tiny space within the emergency scenario division.
When Ross confirmed up a few minutes afterward, Squires claimed Breau immediately requested her what had really occurred and that did it.
Ross reacted, “Donnie Walker.”
As rapidly as she claimed that, Squires decided himself as a legislation enforcement agent. In his notes, he composed that Ross began discovering different people within the space throughout that point.
Squires stored in thoughts that Ross rapidly reworked her story, stating she actually didn’t acknowledge that assaulted Breau which the burglars had really been lined up.
Breau was fatally stabbed in his Charles Street home onAug 17, 2022. (Justin Breau/Facebook)
Ross after that begged with Cromwell to not state something concerning her figuring out Walker.
During the rest of Ross’s assertion and interrogation on Monday, her feedbacks had been normally “I don’t know” or “I don’t remember.”
The check is at the moment in its 2nd week and 18 witnesses have really affirmed.
Because of technological troubles with enjoying video clip recordings within the court docket, the court docket was supplied Tuesday off. The check will definitely return to on Wednesday early morning.
