He would have stabbed himself after being rejected by it

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Michael Nguyen

Friday, September 8, 2017 10:08

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The young man accused of having stabbed to death a cashier at a Maxi which would have been rejected had prepared his crime, has claimed the Crown at the opening of the trial on Friday.

“(Randy Tshilumba) came in with a hunting knife and a bag containing a change of clothes, he made the tour of the supermarket and stabbed the victim 14 times, ” said Catherine Perreault, for the prosecution, in its opening statement.

According to the evidence of the prosecution, Tshilumba, 21 years old, had done his secondary school in the same school as the victim, Mercy Beaulieu-Patry. The two knew each other, but were not talking.

“It was in the gang a little popular, we had a lot of friends,” reveals Chloe Patel Nicole, a friend of the victim.

It was not until three years later that Tshilumba has reviewed Clemency Beaulieu-Patry, who worked in a Max of Montreal. He would have then approached, asking him to go out together and he would have asked her for her phone number. The young 20 year-old woman refused.

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A time too

On April 10, 2016, Ms. Beaulieu-Patry worked up to 20 h, but she had agreed to troubleshoot its managing director, working up to 21 h

“It was more than an hour, but to her, it became a time too “, explained to Me, Perreault.

Tshilumba was presented to Max at 20: 30 and was immediately directed towards his victim, who was in the section of clothing. He would have attacked while she had her back turned, to reach it at the back, in the neck, then the chest.

According to witnesses, Tshilumba then fled as clients tried to save Mercy.

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Mercy Beaulieu-Patry, who was murdered in a supermarket Maxi.

Hidden

Tshilumba would have quickly fled, and took refuge in the women’s restroom of a Tim Hortons located nearby, where he would have texté friends in addition to change.

A few hours later, he was gone in transit until the college for which it studied, according to the Crown. He would have hidden the murder weapon and his clothes soiled in her locker.

He would have done several internet searches on how to wash the blood, get rid of the evidence and on the way to commit the murder perfect.

The trial chaired by the judge Hélène Di Salvo is expected to last five weeks. Tshilumba is defended by counsel Philippe Larochelle and Sébastien Chartrand.

They have done everything to try to save it

The customers of the Maxi have done everything to try to save Mercy Beaulieu-Patry, until his last breath.

“Stay with us, we are there, it is there,” repeated John William Lahens to the victim lying on the ground in the middle of an aisle.

Mr. Lahens was doing his grocery with his wife on the evening of April 10, 2016, when Randy Tshilumba is presented in the section of clothing and that he would have stabbed him Clemency to 14 times.

If he arrived too late to see the blows to the innocent victim, his wife and their four year old daughter did practically nothing short of the horror scene.

Horror

When Pascale Nadege Joseph saw Tshilumba behind the victim, 20-year-old, it was first thought to be two young people who chamaillaient.

In her head, she testified, it could not be anything else. But she quickly realized that this was not the case.

“It was Mercy, it was back to him… One arm lifted, I saw a reflection… My God… it looked like a machete, it is was not, it is at the Max,” she testified with emotion.

The woman screamed, while trying to hide the sight of his little girl. She remembers clearly the sound of the blade coming out of the body of the victim.

“I heard a sound out of Mercy… it was like… his last breath “, she added.

John William Lahens is then arrived in the driveway. He yelled at Tshilumba to stop, but he fled. The customer then has raced to the rescue of Leniency Beaulieu-Patry.

“I squeezed where the blood flowed, but it came out everywhere,” he said.

Distress

A nurse who was doing her grocery shopping is also made. Claudelle Calvé has tried to keep alive the innocent victim until the paramedics arrive just as another customer who had been alerted by ” shouting blood-curdling “.

“It happened so fast… I called 911 telling them not to hang around, that the victim would not escape, he testified to the court. I saw a laceration in the heart, deep enough, it stuck with me. “

With two other people, he tried to stop the bleeding, without success.

“She tried to speak and blood came out of his mouth, he said. I saw his eyes get up, I knew immediately that it was finished. “