Gerald Stanley told the jury in his second-degree murder trial Monday that he and his son heard an SUV with a flat tire drive into the yard near Biggar, Sask., in August 2016. “I was reaching in and across the steering wheel to turn the key off and — boom — this thing just went off,” Stanley testified. Court has heard an SUV carrying five people had a flat tire and drove onto the Stanley farm. Spencer told the jury in his opening statement earlier Monday that Boushie was the victim of “a freak accident that occurred in the course of an unimaginably scary situation.” He told jurors Boushie’s death wasn’t justified, but they must put themselves in Stanley’s shoes. “If they would have just stopped — stopped drinking, stopped drinking and driving, stopped breaking into people’s places, stop vandalizing stuff, stop crashing into things.

Source: thestar February 05, 2018 13:47 UTC