Victim's teen son, common law partner testify at Regina manslaughter trial

Theteenage son and the common law partnerof a Regina manfatally wounded at his home in March2016 testified at the Court of Queen's Bench in Regina on Wednesday.

CandaceItittakoose, Aubertin's common law partner,told the jury Wednesday that Aubertin started his final day as he always did.

"He gets up. He makes coffee and he watches his news, every morning," she said.

Itittakoose woke up and joined him on the couch to watch television. Shesaid she saw two men approaching the home and told Aubertin, "Your bros are coming this way." She told the jury Wednesday that one of the approaching men wasGoodpipe.

She said Aubertin didn't want people to come over, so she called out the window "there's nothing here."

People occasionally came to the house to buy marijuana from Aubertin, she told the jury. Goodpipehad been to the home before and asked to use a phone, she said.

She said the men entered the home, despite her efforts to keep them on the porch.

She said she passed Goodpipe the victim's phone and then saw Goodpipe'sassociate produce a gun from his sweater and say, "What you got?"

"Andre started to raise his arms," she said. "He never got to say anything and he was already shot."

Itittakoosesaid she ran out the back door in a panic and said the two men had fled by the time she returned to check on him.

Sheacknowledgedshe had previously told police that the shooter said something to the effect of what you "doing" rather than what you "got."

"There's a lot of difference between what you doing and what you got," said defence lawyerMervShaw during cross examination, noting the former phrase was friendlier.

Teen testifies

Aubertin'steenage sonAlexander Totowas there,visiting for Easter break, according toItittakoose.

She said she tried to calm him down as he was in a panic, asking, "Did my dad get shot? Did my dad get shot?"

Toto also testified in court Wednesday. He had arrived at the home on a few days before the shooting and was hanging out with his dad the night before he died.

The teen said he woke up around 7 a.m. to go to the washroom and saw his dad.

"All I said was good morning."

Toto said he went back to sleep and was next awoken by a "big bang."He opened his door.

"I seen my dad laying on the ground," he said, noting he was in pain bleeding and mumbling. "I was shocked."

Toto said he tried to find his dad's phone to call 911 but couldn't find it.

The trial began Monday and is scheduled to run two weeks.