Thursday was the second day of the first-degree homicide trial of a person accused of brutally attacking unsuspecting individuals in Hamilton in November 2020.
The court docket noticed the final moments of 29-year-old Andrew Ainscow’s life, earlier than he was allegedly stabbed to loss of life in an alley.
The court docket heard from Det. Nesreen Shawihat, one of many investigators tasked with going by way of the surveillance video from that violent evening in downtown Hamilton.
Keith Overholt is charged with first-degree homicide within the stabbing loss of life and appeared in court docket Thursday. He’s additionally dealing with two counts of tried homicide, and pleading harmless to all charges.
At 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 9, 2020, a person matching Overholt’s description is captured on safety digital camera strolling in an alley behind Duke Road, hours after violently attacking a girl with a stick at York Boulevard and Queen Road.
In keeping with video proven to the court docket, Andrew Ainscow was seen strolling in that very same alley moments earlier than and stopping at a concrete barrier, simply out of digital camera view. Overholt then bends over, stands again up, bends over once more, lunges ahead, stands up once more, after which leaves.
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This all occurs after 1 a.m., and video reveals Ainscow was not found till a automobile entered the laneway the following morning at 6:52 a.m., and police say he was stabbed 37 occasions.
The court docket additionally heard a 911 name minutes after Overholt allegedly stabbed Ainscow to loss of life, wherein a 39-year-old man informed the operator that “somebody tried to stab him, and they are outside and around the area still.” He informed them that he fell and scraped his knuckle and knees and he was bleeding, however didn’t suppose he’d been stabbed.
That incident occurred on MacNab Road, and police have video of it as effectively. The sufferer managed to run to the YMCA to name for assist.
The defence argued that the retaining wall the place Andrew Ainscow was killed blocked the digital camera’s view of what really occurred, and that there was additionally a few minute the place the surveillance digital camera didn’t report something. The defence requested the detective if she knew what occurred throughout that point, to which she answered, “no I don’t.”
The trial by jury continues Friday.
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