Blood analysis detailed at teen murder case
The jury in the second-degree murder trial of a Charlottetown teenager heard DNA analysis of blood found in an apartment belonged to Kent David Gallant.
Charlottetown Police forensic identification officer Const. Steve Currie testified both apartments in the duplex located at the corner of Brows Lane and St. Peters Road in Charlottetown were searched. The lower apartment is where the blood was found.
Gallant, 45, was found across the street on the front lawn of a house on Brows Lane on July 11, 2014 at around 9:30 p.m.
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Currie told the jury a laser was used to detect trace amounts of blood in the lower apartment.
The jury heard both apartments had been searched six months previously for drugs.
Currie told Crown prosecutor Valerie Moore he had attended Gallant's autopsy in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on July 13, 2014.
The jury is expected to hear the testimony of Dr. Matthew Bowes Friday. He is the chief medical officer for Nova Scotia and performed the autopsy on Gallant.
Family emotional
It was a difficult morning for the family of stabbing victim Kent David Gallant, as his bloodstained shirt was shown to jurors.
The shirt - white with short sleeves, collar and V-neck - was held up for jurors to see by Currie, who found it at the crime scene last July.
In addition to blood stains down the front, it also had puncture marks in each shoulder and left chest.
Currie testified the shirt and one of the victim's shoes was found in the backyard of the duplex apartment.
Gallant's sister, seated in court, dabbed her eyes with a tissue as the key piece of evidence was shown, while another family member left the courtroom.
The jury also heard testimony Wednesday from the police officer who arrested the young woman who is now on trial for second-degree murder.
Accused 'nonchalant'
Const. Reg Wood testified the girl was found wandering around the crime scene in the middle of the night, having hid for hours inside a garage on the property.
To explain her sudden appearance on the crime scene at 2:30 a.m., police testify the girl told them, "I was told to hide in the barn."
She was "nonchalant, matter of fact" and had bloodshot eyes, said Wood.
The officer testified the girl, then 17, produced a student ID card, and begged police not to tell her parents.
In previous testimony from police, the court has heard the girl told officers the victim had tried to sexually assault her.
That allegation has not been proven.
This is the seventh day of the trial, which is expected to last a month.
