Video evidence shows gunfire, suspect vehicle in B.C. teen bystander murder trial

Newly-released tribunal grounds is coating a clearer image of a gangland shootout successful Vancouver six years agone that near a man and an guiltless teenage boy dead.

Alfred Wong, 15, was riding successful nan backmost of his parents’ car connected Jan. 13, 2018, erstwhile he was struck by nan stray slug that killed him.

Kane Carter has pleaded not blameworthy to 2 counts of second-degree execution successful nan deaths of Wong and Kevin Whiteside, on pinch nan aggravated battle of different injured bystander.

The Crown alleges Carter was successful Vancouver to execution Whiteside, who was himself allegedly 100-block of West Broadway to termination pack rival Matthew Navas-Rivas astatine nan time.

Video grounds obtained by Global News shows a burgundy van astatine nan segment that nan Crown alleges was utilized by nan killer.

In nan distance, nan video shows Whiteside moving and shooting wildly astatine a taxi pinch Navas-Rivas inside. Navas-Rivas escaped nan scene.

Whiteside is killed connected nan sidewalk, and seconds later nan burgundy van departs.

The video besides depicts 2 bystander vehicles traversing nan shootout connected Broadway, some of which were struck by bullets.

One of those bullets pierced respective of Wong’s organs arsenic it struck him successful nan backmost spot of his parents’ car. He died 2 days later successful hospital.

A 2nd guiltless personification successful nan different car was besides grazed by a slug that shattered his model and tore done his headrest.

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The mobility of personality will find nan result of nan trial.

The Crown acknowledges nan grounds successful nan lawsuit is almost wholly circumstantial and that nary witnesser saw nan shooter propulsion nan trigger, nor were they captured connected camera.

Prosecutor Don Montrichard told nan assemblage that nan Crown would beryllium nan lawsuit by assembling “pieces of a puzzle” including trajectory and forensic study and a elaborate constabulary reenactment.

The tribunal has heard nan burgundy van astatine nan crime segment is akin to 1 recovered astatine Carter’s Surrey apartment, though not registered to him. Police recovered a bloody insubstantial and different DNA connected to Carter on pinch 3 fired slug casings inside, nan assemblage heard.

The only guns investigators ever recovered, however, were Whiteside’s, and nan slug casings recovered successful nan van were excessively damaged to analyze.

Carter’s defence has yet to outline its mentation of what happened connected nan time of nan shootings. The trial, now successful its 2nd month, is expected to tally until nan extremity of November.

— pinch files from Rumina Daya