TORONTO - The first trial in the Boxing Day 2005 shooting death of Jane Creba is hearing about bullet shell casings, a purse and a "pool of blood" found at the scene.
A police forensic investigator has been called as the prosecution's first witness at the second-degree murder trial of a 20-year-old man.
Toronto police Det. John Davidson is telling the jury what he found during his investigation of the fatal shooting of the Grade 10 student on Dec. 26, 2005.
That evidence includes spent shell casings, a blue purse and a "pinkish pool of blood."
In her opening statement to the jury, Crown prosecutor Kerry Hughes said Creba had her sister's purse when she was caught in the crossfire of a brazen gun battle between two groups on a busy downtown street.
The accused, who can only be identified by the initials J.S.R. because he was 17 at the time of the shooting, is charged with second-degree murder, six counts of attempted murder and five firearms offences.
He has pleaded not guilty to all 12 charges.
The Crown does not contend J.S.R. fired the bullet that killed Creba, but told the jury it intends to show that seven of the eight shell casings and two of the four bullets at the scene came from the gun found on the youth at the time of his arrest.
