Court hears gun used in slaying of northern Mountie fired twice at close range
Published Wednesday November 4th, 2009
YELLOWKNIFE - A forensic expert has testified that a gun involved in the fatal shooting of a northern RCMP officer appears to have been fired from very close range.
John Marshall was on the stand in the first-degree murder trial of Emrah Bulatci, who is charged in the October 2007 death of Const. Christopher Worden in Hay River, Northwest Territories.
Marshall told jurors that gunshot residue taken from the slain officer's jacket suggests the gun was fired twice from within 15 centimetres of the 30-year-old Mountie's body.
He also testified that the bullets came from the same .40-calibre Smith and Wesson handgun that witnesses have testified Bulatci was carrying while in Hay River.
Bulatci, 25, has previously admitted to shooting Worden, but his lawyer has told the jury that the Edmonton-area man did not intend to kill the officer.
The jury will be excused on Thursday while the Crown and defence review whether certain evidence will be admissible in court.
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