A police officer has testified that a man who was fatally stabbed, allegedly in a dispute over a cell phone card, was calm as he lifted his shirt to show his intestines hanging out of his wound.
Rocky Genereaux died in March 2015 after being attacked at a home in Saskatoon.
Michael James Robertson is charged with second-degree murder.
Const. Jeff Johnsgaard testified Tuesday that when he first responded to a call about an injured person at the home, he thought it was a prank call as several people were moving about but no one seemed to be in distress.
The officer asked who was hurt and Genereaux approached him, lifting his shirt to reveal what Johnsgaard estimated was three-and-a-half pounds of small intestine hanging out of a small but deep stab wound.
Johnsgaard said Genereaux laid down on a couch but his condition started to rapidly deteriorate, and he started having trouble breathing and began drifting in and out of consciousness.
Paramedics arrived and Genereaux was taken to hospital but he soon died.
Melissa Kishayinew, Genereaux's roommate, testified that she heard noises and swearing after Robertson went into Genereaux's room that night, adding that Robertson came rushing out carrying a knife.
She told court Robertson ran out the back door of the home and took off.
She said Genereaux then came out with his hands over his shirt, holding his stomach.
Kishayinew testified that before the incident, she heard Robertson speaking on the phone with his cell service provider about a SIM card.
Several of Genereaux's family members in the courtroom burst into tears as the Crown played the tape of Kishayinew's call to 911. In it, several voices could be heard in the background as Kishayinew pleaded with the dispatcher to send help quickly.
In the 911 call, Genereaux could be heard saying: "I don't know nothing about no phone card."
Earlier this year, Nicole Ashley Paddy of Saskatoon was convicted of being an accessory after the fact to aggravated assault in the case. She was sentenced to 15 months time served and another nine months of probation.
Security was tight at Tuesday's court proceedings, as police have alleged there are ties in the case to the Indian Posse street gang. Armed plainclothes officers wearing bullet-proof vests were stationed outside Saskatoon Court of Queen's Bench.
(CKOM)
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