Two guns, flat tire found on Stanley farm: Crown witness
There was a second gun present at the Stanley farm the night Colten Boushie was found dead according to the Crown’s first witness, an RCMP investigator.
Gerald Stanley is charged with in connection with the 2016 shooting death of 22-year-old Colten Boushie. His second-degree murder trial began yesterday in Battleford.
In his opening argument, prosecutor William Burge summarized the Crown’s case against Stanley, which he said will include testimony from Stanley’s son Sheldon, along with several police officers and civilian witnesses. Burge said Stanley and his son were working on a fence in Stanley’s farmyard, where he raised cattle and worked on vehicles, when a grey, 2003 Ford Escape entered the yard. The vehicle stopped at a parked truck, then near a quad, Burge said, and a person got out of the SUV and attempted to start the quad.
Burge said Sheldon Stanley ran over to the Ford and struck the windshield with a hammer. The driver of the vehicle reversed, he said, striking another vehicle in the farmyard. At that point, Sheldon ran into the house to grab car keys and give chase, Burge said, but while inside, he heard three shots fired in the yard. When Sheldon Stanley emerged from the house, Burge said he saw his father standing next to the vehicle’s door holding a Russian-made Tokarev semi-automatic handgun.