A low-level drug dealer has testified that two gang members who were sent to kill a former colleague became quiet and withdrawn after mistakenly killing a mother of four instead.
The witness, who can't be named because of a publication ban, says he wasn't in on the planning but one of the shooters eventually told him broadly what had happened.
He says the shooter at first showed no remorse, but eventually slipped into heavy drug use and seemed regretful.
The testimony comes at the first-degree murder trial of Joshua Petrin, which is being heard by a judge alone.
The Crown contends that Petrin ordered a hit on a former member of the White Boy Posse but an address mixup sent the gunmen to a home where Lorry Ann Santos was fatally shot as she peered out her window after her doorbell had been rung.
She and her husband had been getting their children up for the morning — her husband, Ferdinand, tried desperately to get a response from her as her eldest daughter phoned 911.
The two shooters have already been convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
The Crown's case wrapped up with Tuesday's witness, who told court he was a gang affiliate who sold cocaine in Inuvik, Lloydminster and Saskatoon for Petrin.
Under questioning from Petrin's lawyer, the witness said he initially asked police for money to testify when he was being interrogated in November 2012.
He said he ultimately never got a payout, but did get a letter from police to help him with a drug charge.
(CKOM)
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