The murder trial will take 6-8 months after the man declares himself innocent to kill by contract

The man accused of his contract to kill Nicholas KThere will be in Surrey, BC, he declared himself innocent in a murder trial that prosecutors say that they will include testimonies of witnesses of a second victim and a criminal of a lifetime that the Crown claims I was in the target shooting.

The trial began on Tuesday in a safe court in New Westminster.

A jury of 14 people observed how Brandon Teixeira, 33, stopped before them and declared himself innocent of first -degree murder, attempted murder and unloading a firearm, before the prosecutors of the crown rose and made their opening statement, describing the case they intend to present during the next six to eight months.

Teixeira is accused of killing Khabra in South Surrey on October 23, 2017. Some details that surround the case and the identities of two witnesses are protected by a publication prohibition.

The defense has not yet presented its argument.

On Tuesday, the prosecutor Dianne Wiedemann described the circumstances alloyed by the crown led to the murder.

Hired murder

She said that Teixeira had escaped an objective shooting only a few days before Khabra’s death, and suspected that Khabra was involved in some way in the attack. Prosecutors claim that Teixeira informed their “associates” of their suspicions and then accepted a $ 160,000 contract to kill Khabra.

Teixiera then organized a meeting with Khabra in a dead endC in block 14300 of Crescent Road for The first hours of October 23. Prosecutors say it brought a second person, called person X, who was in the objective murder.

Khabra also arrived with a second person, identified by the crown as a person A.

Mortal meeting

The prosecutors say that Khabra and Teixeira left their vehicles and began to speak friendly between them. In a moment, Khabra away from Teixeira To open the passenger side of your vehicle and bow inside. It was then that Teixeira took a gun from her waist and began shooting Khabra, prosecutors allege.

Wiedemann said Teixeira’s associatedPerson X, “was frozen and in a state of shock and remained in the vehicle.”

Person A, who was inside Khabra’s vehicle, was beaten by multiple bullets. They accelerated immediately and called the police, which was a short distance from the dead end.

Meanwhile, in the crime scene, Wiedemann told the court that person X watched as “Khabra was lying on his back” and “the defendant was stopped right in front of him and shooting.”

Person X then saw Teixeira’s jam, and it seemed that “the defendant was a gun by whipping Mr. Khabra while lying in the grass,” said Wiedemann.

Prosecutors claim that person X left the car and gave Teixeira a second weapon, which also stuck. Khabra then tried to escape, running in front of a nearby house, but Teixeira followed him and stabbed him several times, prosecutors claim.

The accusations have not been tested in court.

The first witnesses testify

RCMP CPL. Kenneth Ho testified on Tuesday and Wednesday. He was the first officer in the crime scene.

“I saw the victim rolling,” Ho recalled. “As I approached me, he said the word ‘shot, shot, shot’. (His voice) was very hoarse.

During the interrogation, Teixeira’s defense team interrogated him about the visibility in the crime scene and reviewed the footage, to which he recognized that it was dark and difficult to distinguish certain colors in the vehicles.