second person to be randomly fired upon<\/a> at that spot, east of Calgary, on Aug. 6, 2024, Crown prosecutor Photini Papadatou told jurors on the opening day of the trial of Arthur Penner and Blake Strawberry.<\/p>\nThe statement is not evidence but an outline of what the Crown hopes to prove in the Court of King\u2019s Bench trial, which is scheduled to last a month.<\/p>\n
Minutes earlier that fateful day, Papadatou told court, Matthew Andres was doing surveying work \u2014 his electricity company truck parked roadside \u2014 when he heard another vehicle drive up with what sounded like a flat tire.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn individual emerged from that vehicle,\u201d Papadatou said. He shot Andres in the arm and demanded his truck keys, then walked back and forth pointing the gun at his head.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Andres) will tell you he feared for his life and that he fled to escape.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe ran as far and as fast as he could as soon as he could, but he did not get very far. He threw himself into a field. He will frankly tell you he was trying to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n
As he hid, the two strangers set fire to their own truck, which had been stolen in Calgary the day before. But they couldn\u2019t leave in Andres\u2019 vehicle as it became stuck.<\/p>\n
Another vehicle was needed.<\/p>\n
In the distance, Andres could see the 45-year-old Hough, in his Rocky View County truck, approaching. He had no way to warn him.<\/p>\n
Hough, said Papadatou, was shot three times. Video footage from a nearby semi-trailer driver captured his final minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis camera recorded a figure moving across the intersection and collapsing at that intersection in the middle of the road,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The Crown says a .45-calibre bullet was found where Hough had collapsed and a 9-mm shell casing found near where Andres was hit.<\/p>\n
Houghs\u2019 vehicle was later found abandoned. Penner, 37, was arrested five days later and Strawberry, 29, was found after a month hiding in a residence on the O\u2019Chiese First Nation.<\/p>\n
Andres is expected to testify Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Penner and Strawberry are charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder. Earlier Monday they entered pleas of not guilty.<\/p>\n
The jury was sworn in and addressed by the judge.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are the judges of the facts,\u201d Justice Shane Parker urged them. \u201cUse your common sense and experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t jump to conclusions. As the saying goes, don\u2019t judge a book by its cover.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colin Hough was in his work truck one summer day when, hoping to lend a hand, he pulled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-648335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}