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Witnesses testify in weapons trial Court case focused on shooting on Wilgress Road in May of 2010 that left one person dead
Dockerill picked up Ambrus and they drove to Borden’s residence, an apartment at 2253 WilA man injured in a shootout on gress Rd. in central Nanaimo, to Wilgress Road in May 2010 tes- pick up the money. tified at the resulting weapons “Everything seemed totally trial on Thursday. normal,” he said. “As far as I Simon Phillip Dockerill, charged know, [Dockerill] just simply lent with possession of a restricted [Borden] money.” firearm, was initially charged Ambrus said Dockerill parked with murder following the late near the stairs of the two-storey afternoon incident, which killed industrial building Borden lived John Charles Borden, in, and while Ambrus 47, and injured Dockremained in the vehierill and another man. cle playing on his new But following develcellphone, Dockerill opments in the police walked up the stairs investigation, Crown to Borden’s apartcounsel requested ment. Next, the door last July that the I thought he to Borden’s apartmurder charge be ment opened, an dropped, which satis- was going envelope was thrown fied the Crown that out, then the door the deceased initi- to shoot me closed quickly again, ated the exchange of he said. gunfire that led to his through the Ambrus testified death and Dockerill dash. that Dockerill picked responded with an up the envelope and apparent act of self-defence. headed back down the stairs, Dockerill’s 10-day trial began then the door opened again June 10 in B.C. Supreme Court and Borden emerged with a and is scheduled to run until Fri- gun pointed at the sky, walked day (June 21). partway down the stairs, then On Thursday afternoon, the started shooting. Borden walked Crown called Dylan Ambrus, 33, down the rest of the stairs, came who has known Dockerill since to the front of Dockerill’s vehicle secondary school. and pointed the gun at Ambrus’s Ambrus testified that Dockerill head. Ambrus described Borden phoned him the day of the inci- as looking like a robot, with a dent to tell him he was going to blank expression on his face. pick up some money and wanted “I put my hands up,” said his help to buy a heat pump, as Ambrus. “I thought he was going Ambrus installs the units for a to shoot me through the dash.” living. u See ‘WITNESS’ /4 By JeNN M c garrIgle ThE NEwS BULLETiN
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Camrynn Myronuk and her teammates on the Nanaimo Diamonds Level 4 provincial team perform a highlight during their routine at the club’s year-end water show at Beban Pool on Sunday afternoon.
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