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Moments after 4 people had been captured on video fleeing a deadly capturing down an alley, a fifth appeared to fireside a shot of their course, a police official stated Tuesday.
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Const. Evan Nelson stated he was one among a number of investigators tasked with reviewing surveillance video following the Sept. 12, 2020, killing of Adburahaman Indiris exterior the Portico Hookah Lounge in southeast Calgary.
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The footage exhibits a person in a white T-shirt, adopted by a second man in a white shirt, fleeing west within the alley perpendicular to the 35 Avenue SE membership, Nelson stated.
He informed Crown prosecutor Matt Dalidowicz that the video then confirmed two males in dark-colored shirts operating in the identical course earlier than he noticed what he described as a “muzzle shot” from the hand of a fifth particular person operating up the display screen appeared.
‘In step with a muzzle flash’
In her opening tackle on Monday, co-prosecutor Michelle Kai informed Decide Paul Jeffrey within the Courtroom of King’s Bench that an harmless bystander was hit within the leg as accused killers Samuel Lugela and Feysal Osman Abdul-Aziz fled the scene.
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Lugela and Abdul-Aziz are charged with second-degree homicide within the deadly capturing of Indiris on the road exterior the Water Arrow Lounge.
Underneath cross-examination by Lugela’s lawyer, Paul Moreau, Nelson admitted he couldn’t determine anybody within the video.
Moreau additionally urged that there have been different flashes of sunshine within the footage, casting doubt on whether or not Nelson was right in describing the muzzle flash.
“I undergo you that any of the factors of sunshine we see within the video, together with the one you name a muzzle flash, are merely a gentle anomaly… do you agree or disagree?” requested Moreau.
“I can see flashes of sunshine, however this explicit one has some mud behind (it) with the person elevating their arm, who seems to be pointing in a course with a flash that I imagine corresponds to a muzzle flash, ” Nelson stated.
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“No different (flashes) have that form of substance.”
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In the meantime, Abdul-Aziz’s lawyer, Derek Jugnauth, questioned one other officer who recovered a bag linked to the 2 accused, from which the prosecution alleges Lugela produced the pistol used to kill Indiris .
Const. Robert Campbell stated at totally different instances people believed to be Lugela and Abdul-Aziz had been caught carrying the bag.
However the officer agreed with Jugnauth that the final time the particular person believed to be Abdul-Aziz was holding the bag was at 9:40 p.m. on September 11, 2020, 4 hours earlier than the capturing.
The trial resumes on Thursday.
KMartin@postmedia.com
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