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The gun secure focused by gunmen in a lethal Chestermere dwelling invasion theft was seen to anybody who got here to the house, the sufferer’s stepdaughter testified Tuesday.
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Jade Gold, the stepdaughter, stated it was widespread data that her stepfather, Dennis Lewis, was a gun fanatic.
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Amongst these conscious of the gun secure was a person named Max, whom Gold briefly dated in 2017, a 12 months earlier than Lewis was fatally shot when 4 males stormed his Chestermere dwelling on the morning of November 26, 2018.
It turned out that Max had allegedly been dishonest on a girl named Sarha Skye Johnson, Gold informed Crown prosecutor Lori Chambers. Johnson is related to homicide suspect Richard Sikora, the witness informed the courtroom.
“Apparently I used to be having affairs together with her boyfriend,” Gold stated of her time with Max, who visited the house 4 or 5 instances.
“I did not notice they had been relationship… She did not prefer it, so she messaged me on Fb and different media companies making an attempt to contact me.”
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“They’re in the identical community of individuals,” says stepdaughter of Johnson and Sikora
Gold stated she was harassed by Johnson – or somebody with that profile title – till she eliminated herself from social media in March 2018.
Gold stated the girl was “affiliated with” Sikora.
“They frolicked collectively, they’re in the identical community of individuals.”
Sikora is considered one of two males going through first-degree homicide expenses in Lewis’ loss of life together with Jacob Alexander Tolchinsky. Two different males, Justin Gittens and Joseph Pillay, earlier pleaded responsible to lowered expenses of manslaughter for his or her roles.
Gold stated she had by no means heard of Tolchinsky or Gittens, however knew of Pillay because the boyfriend of a girl named Amanda, who was an acquaintance from a one-time boarder on the Chestermere residence.
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However the stepdaughter stated neither Amanda nor Pillay had ever been dwelling.
“They weren’t the form of folks you invited,” she informed the prosecutor.
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‘The Amazon man… would see it when he got here on the porch’
Beneath cross-examination by Sikora’s lawyer, Shaun Leochko, the witness agreed that her stepfather’s gun secure was seen within the entrance window of their dwelling.
“Anybody who got here to the home would see it from the steps,” she stated.
“The Amazon man who delivered our packages would see it when he got here to the porch.”
In the meantime, a primary physician on the scene stated it was not clear that Lewis had been shot when he and his associate first arrived.
Paramedic David Archambault stated Lewis was unconscious, not respiratory and had no pulse on the time.
“We did discover a very wonderful stab wound slightly below his ribcage,” Archambault stated.
He stated Lewis was mendacity on his again once they arrived and began CPR.
It wasn’t till an ambulance arrived eight to 10 minutes later — and Lewis was rolled over to be moved — that the gunshot wound to his again was found.
KMartin@postmedia.com
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