B.C. court hears man agitated in ER two days before student fatally stabbed
Posted October 8, 2019 12:10 pm.
Last Updated October 8, 2019 1:06 pm.
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — A member of an emergency-room security team told a B.C. Supreme Court trial that the man accused of murdering a high school student showed up at the Abbotsford, B.C., hospital asking for help.
Kylee Evanuk says she encountered an agitated young man named Gabriel in the ER waiting room on Oct. 30, 2016, and he said he needed to call his mother but she couldn’t reach the woman.
Two days later, Evanuk says the same man was brought into the ER in restraints surrounded by police after the hospital was notified patients would be arriving in serious condition, perhaps suffering from gunshot or stab wounds.
Gabriel Klein has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Letisha Reimer and aggravated assault in the wounding of another student whose name is protected by a publication ban.
The court has heard Klein was taken to hospital after a man walked into a high school and stabbed a 13-year-old girl to death and wounded another.
The Crown attorney said in his opening statement that Klein’s defence will be that he is not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.
