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Devin Morningstar jury sees pictures of implements used to stab Baylee Wylie

The jury at Devin Morningstar's first-degree murder trial saw drawings Tuesday of a knife and shard of mirror the accused says were used to stab Moncton teen Baylee Wylie last winter.

Security videos show Morningstar with co-accused Tyler Noel and Marissa Shephard after murder, officer says

A young man scowling while wearing a backward ballcap.
Devin Morningstar, 19, is on trial for first-degree murder and arson in connection with the death of Baylee Wylie, 18, in Moncton in December. (Facebook)

The jury atDevin Morningstar'sfirst-degree murder trial saw drawings Tuesday of a knife and shard of mirror the accused says were used to stab Moncton teen Baylee Wylie last winter.

Morningstar, 19, made the drawings during his sworn video statement to Codiac Regional RCMP on Dec. 22, 2015, when herecountedthe graphic details surrounding Wylie's death.

Morningstaradmitted in the video he stabbed Wylie three times.The 18-year-old sustained more than 200 wounds before his body was discovered under a boxspringin the burned-out unit of a triplex on Sumac Street, the court has heard.

"I know I'm not innocent, but I'm not guilty of those charges," Morningstar said on the video.

Morningstar, who is also charged with arson,is the first of three accused to testify aboutWylie'sdeath. Tyler Noel, 19, and Marissa Shephard, 20, are both also charged with first-degree murder and arson.

Morningstar sat in court quietly on Tuesday. In person he appears much calmer than in the videos the court has seen,but his slumped posture sometimes matches the video.

The Crown introduced surveillance videos into evidence on Tuesday, which Sgt. Jim MacPherson testified showed the accused in the hours following the murder on Dec. 17.

Theywent to the WestmountEsso at5:03 p.m., and the Starbucks on Elwood Drive at 6:04 p.m., according to MacPherson.

The body of 18-year-old Baylee Wylie was discovered in a residence on Sumac Street in Moncton by firefighters on Dec. 17, after extinguishing an early morning fire at the residence. (Submitted)
The first videoshows Morningstar and Shephardarrive at the Essoin a taxi. Morningstar is wearing a black jacket and a red hoodie with the hood pulled up. Shephard is wearing a dark parka with a fur-lined hood pulled up, the officer said.

Inside the gas station, Morningstar and Shephardare milling about with Noel and anotherfemale while another customer is being served.Noel is wearing a grey hoodie over a whiteT-shirt and a black baseball cap and thefemale, who wasn't named in court, is wearing ablack sweater.

The video has no sound, but Shephard and Noel are standing close together, face-to-face, and appear to be talking. Then the group leaves.

In the next video, Morningstar and the unidentified female, who has light-coloured hair in a bun, enter the Starbucksand talk to another woman for less than a minute before all three exit together.

'I remember how white he was'

Morningstar blamedthe death of Wylie on Shephard and Noel who was "steaming mad," and "trying so hard to be this big gangster," after Wylie toldShephardthat he had a sexual relationship with both Noel andMorningstar.

According toMorningstar,the group wassmoking crack beforethe death took place.

Morningstar said the original plan was to frame Wylie, but he was eventually beaten and then stabbed to deathoveran hour and a half.

He admitted in the video that while Noel and Shephard started stabbing Wylie, he stabbed the 18-year-old three times himself.

"I remember how white he was,"Morningstartold the police.

The trial is scheduled to last five weeks.

With files from Tori Weldon