A 15-year-old boy is being tried as an adult at Court of Queen’s Bench in Saskatoon for allegedly trying to kill a man by slashing his throat and hitting him in the head with a frying pan.
The teen is charged with attempted murder and unlawful confinement. His identity is banned from publication unless a sentencing hearing takes place.
In his opening statement, prosecutor Evan Thompson said police arrived just before 7 a.m. on April 4, 2016 to an apartment on Main Street East, where Daryl Weber had been stabbed and hit in the head multiple times. The victim told police his attacker lived in the same apartment.
Thompson said a knife found in the youth’s apartment is believed to have been one of the weapons.
Crime scene photos showed blood on the floor near Weber’s door and on his bed, walls and chair. An officer with the forensic identification unit testified she was told to look for frying pans and knives as possible weapons.
Both items were seized from the victim’s kitchen sink — which also contained blood — although neither the pan nor the knife tested positive for blood. Two more frying pans were tested and also came back negative.
Multiple knives were taken for testing from the teen’s apartment. The identification officer testified that a positive blood test came back for one knife that another officer found in the bathroom.
During cross-examination, defence lawyer Patrick McDougall asked the officer if she was aware of an assault that had taken place in that apartment a few weeks before Weber’s assault. The officer said no.
Weber was expected to testify Monday afternoon, but the trial was adjourned based on new information from the witness. The judge-alone trial will resume this morning.
