Murder trial begins for man accused of killing fellow student at Leduc high school

The proceedings for a man accused of fatally stabbing a teenage woman successful a Leduc precocious schoolhouse began Monday.

Dylan Thomas Pountney, now 23, is accused of first-degree execution successful nan decease of 17-year-old Jennifer Winkler.

She was stabbed successful beforehand of her classmates and coach astatine Christ nan King School successful March of 2021.

RCMP person said Winkler and Pountney knew each other, and some attended nan school.

The courtroom successful Wetaskiwin was packed pinch family and friends arsenic aggregate RCMP officers took nan stand.

Pountney and Winkler’s coach besides took nan stand, recalling nan people chat starring up to nan incident.

It was astir 10 a.m. erstwhile she said she saw Pountney stab Winkler aggregate times pinch a knife. She said she yelled astatine him to stop. She told tribunal Winkler was stabbed successful nan precocious shoulder. Pountney ran retired of nan room soon aft that, she said.

Video played successful tribunal showed a man nan coach identified arsenic Pountney going into nan schoolroom pinch a weapon and past moving away.

Advanced Care Paramedic Emily Montgomery told tribunal that erstwhile they first arrived astatine nan classroom, they realized Winkler had mislaid a batch of blood.

“We tried to aftermath her up and she would not aftermath up,” Montgomery said.

Not agelong after, STARS aerial ambulance was called.

Winkler’s mother said to Global News extracurricular tribunal connected Tuesday.

“It took a while to get here,” Louise Molenkemp said. “I don’t expect existent justness to really ever travel for her. Not astatine all. Not pinch our justness strategy anyway.”

She said it has not been easy being successful nan tribunal room.

“I’ve sewage a batch of anger,” Molenkemp said.

She added that it has been really important to person nan tribunal room afloat of Jenny’s family and friends.

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“Jenny had immoderate beautiful cool friends. I knew they would beryllium here.”

Molenkemp described her girl arsenic “a goofball.”

“She was a kind, kind, very benignant girl. Very strong, successful my mind. A batch stronger than I was astatine 17, I tin show you that. She was awesome. Very easy — very easy to woody pinch — unless you asked her to cleanable her room. But she was a bully kid.”

Jenny’s friend Hailey Toles said it was important that she witnesser nan trial, moreover though it’s highly hard.

“It’s rather gut wrenching. Seeing him successful there, too, it’s difficult. It’s very difficult to process that nan events that occurred could happen, particularly to personification that was important successful my life.

“I want justness for her, obviously,” Toles said. “She’s guiltless and taken excessively soon.”

The judge-alone proceedings is expected to past 2 weeks.

On Wednesday, it’s expected classmates who witnessed nan incident will speak successful court.

There is simply a publication prohibition connected nan personality of respective different group who are expected to return nan witnesser stand.