Brother of the deadly capturing sufferer Abdurahaman Indiris tells the courtroom he was too drunk to recollect occasions surrounding the homicide
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Moments after slowly strolling as much as the witness stand to testify in opposition to his brother’s alleged killers, Calgarian Mandefro Indiris mentioned he wouldn’t promise to present sincere testimony.
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“Do you perceive the query?” Choose Paul Jeffrey requested Indiris after he answered “no” to the clerk’s request that he affirm he would inform the reality.
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“Excellent,” Indiris replied.
Solely after the Court docket of King’s Bench decide made additional inquiries did Indiris say “sure”, he would promise to inform the reality.
However the witness didn’t have to present a lot perception into the occasions that led to his brother delivering two deadly gunshots to his higher physique outdoors the Portico Hookah Lounge within the early hours of September 12, 2020.
Brother says video of man dragging one other individual is not him
Indiris mentioned he remembers assembly his brother, who glided by the nickname AJ, on the 35 Road SE membership shortly earlier than midnight on Sept. 11, however has little recollection of the occasions that adopted.
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It’s the Crown’s principle that the sufferer was fatally shot by Samuel Lugela throughout an altercation that spilled into the road at closing time.
Lugela and Feysal Osman Abdul-Aziz are charged with second-degree homicide in reference to the homicide.
Indiris testified he remembers dragging his brother to his Infiniti G35 and driving him to the Peter Lougheed Middle earlier than crashing right into a CTrain station barrier close to the emergency entrance.
However when Kai confirmed him surveillance video from outdoors Portico of a person dragging one other individual, he mentioned he wasn’t within the footage.
“Do you see your self in that video?” requested Kai.
“None. It is not me,” Indiris mentioned.
Kai had co-prosecutor Matt Dalidowicz play a second video from one other surveillance digicam.
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“Do you see your self in that video?” she requested once more.
“Completely, no.”
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Reminiscence loss was because of heavy drunkenness, brother testifies
However Indiris was in a position to describe his effort to get his dying brother medical help when EMS took too lengthy to get to the scene.
“I took him from the place he was shot to my automobile,” mentioned the witness, who defined that his reminiscence loss was because of heavy intoxication.
“He was nonetheless alive when he was with me. He talked to me, ‘I do not suppose I will make it,'” he informed Kai.
Indiris mentioned he was smoking weed 5 ft from his brother when he seen he was injured on the bottom.
“Was there anybody else round?” requested the prosecutor.
“I do not keep in mind,” he replied.
“Did you see what AJ was doing earlier than he was shot?”
“I have no idea.”
Neither protection lawyer Paul Moreau nor Derek Jugnauth had any cross-examination of the witness.
KMartin@postmedia.com
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