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Homicide victim Danillo Canales Glenn suffered multiple wounds to his upper body and head, a pathologist told his alleged murderer’s trial Wednesday.
But Dr. Eleftherios Vouyoukas said it was a single “sharp force” injury that pierced Glenn’s heart that led to his death last Sept. 5.
“I opined that the cause of death was due to sharp force trauma to the chest,” Vouyoukas told Crown prosecutor Vicki Faulkner.
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“What did you opine with respect to the manner of death?” Faulkner asked.
“Homicide.”
A Calgary youth, who was 16 at the time of the incident in the southeast community of Copperfield, faces a charge of second-degree murder in Glenn’s death.
The accused’s older brother, who can’t be named to protect the minor’s identity, also faces the same charge but his case is proceeding in adult court.
Although defence counsel Alain Hepner has elected to have his client’s trial proceed in Calgary Court of King’s Bench, Justice Eleanor Funk is presiding over the accused’s case under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Vouyoukas said when Glenn’s body was transported to the Medical Examiner’s Office there was evidence of efforts of doctors attempting to save his life in the medical gear still attached to him.
Vouyoukas said some of the injuries evident on the corpse could have been the result of medical intervention.
But he said multiple “superficial” cuts on Glenn’s body as well as abrasions on his torso and top of his head along with the major injury.
“On the left mid- to lower chest there is a 1.2 centimetre cut,” Vouyoukas said.
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