Trial begins in historic Saskatoon murder case
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A Saskatoon courtroom is hearing from police officers who found a body on a street in the Pleasant Hill neighbourhood 22 years ago.
It’s during day one of the second-degree murder trial for Enock Quewezance, accused of stabbing Ernest Taypotat, 26, to death on Aug. 28, 1992.
Current and retired police officers testified Monday at Saskatoon’s Court of Queen’s Bench that Taypotat’s body was found near a car in the 400 block of Avenue T South. Det. Sgt. Jocelyn Shriemer said because it was around 4 a.m., the street was void of people and traffic. No weapons were found, but there was blood on Taypotat’s face and body, a car, the sidewalk and the front lawn of 438 Avenue T South, Shriemer told the court.
Georgia Saunders, a woman who lived a few houses down from where Taypotat was found, testified that she saw a body in the street when she got home from the bar around 3:30 a.m. Saunders said she didn’t call police because she assumed he was drunk and had “passed out”; something she said was a regular occurrence in her neighbourhood.
