An 18-year-old was dead when paramedics arrived at his Moncton home two years ago, one of the paramedics testified Tuesday.
Christopher Johnson, a primary care paramedic with Ambulance New Brunswick, was the 16th witness to testify in the trial of Riley Robert Sheldon Phillips, who is charged with second-degree murder.
Phillips, 20, is accused of killing Joedin Lloyd Leger in Moncton on April 25, 2022. Phillips has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Johnson said he was dispatched to 150 Logan Ln. at 6:13 a.m. for a possible shooting. He arrived with another paramedic, and a student, at 6:23 a.m. He said he saw a woman doing chest compressions on a person lying on the driveway.
“He had multiple gunshot wounds suspected,” Johnson testified, saying the man wasn’t breathing and had no pulse.
He was “fully deceased,” Johnson said.
Johnson said the man appeared to have a gunshot wound to his upper right chest, an exit wound in his right armpit, another gunshot wound on his right bicep, and another wound to his left thigh.
Joedin Leger was 18 when he died. (Albert County Funeral Home)
Paramedics performed CPR, used a defibrillator and gave him a drug to try to reduce the bleeding, but Johnson said the man never had a pulse.
Johnson said the ambulance arrived at the Moncton Hospital at 6:55 a.m., where Leger was transferred into the care of nurses and doctors.
Under cross-examination by defence lawyer Brian Munro, Johnson said he saw no guns or shell casings while attending to Leger on the driveway.
Another paramedic, Jerome Scott, testified Tuesday afternoon outlining similar details as Johnson.
RCMP Const. Julie Wood began testifying after Scott, saying she had interviewed Leger’s girlfriend, Chantal Boudreau, on the morning of his death.
“She was very emotional, she was very agitated, she was crying a lot, she was in a state of shock,” Wood said.
Wood was the police exhibit officer for the case and her testimony saw the Crown enter various items, seized during the investigation, as exhibits.
Earlier on Tuesday, RCMP Cpl. Robert Chiasson completed testimony that began Friday. The testimony was used to show the jury photos of several people in the hours before Leger was shot.
Justice Robert Dysart instructed jurors that the testimony was being offered to give context and background about events prior to Phillips’s alleged involvement.
“What other people did or planned without Riley Phillips” is not evidence for their future deliberations, Dysart said.
The jury was shown stills from surveillance footage from Lexi’s Lounge, a bar on Mountain Road, that showed several people after midnight on April 25.
Chiasson said two of those shown were Hunter and Jerek England, whom the officer said he took statements from as part of the investigation into Leger’s death.
Under cross-examination, Chiasson said he didn’t see Phillips in the footage from the bar.
The trial is scheduled to continue for three more weeks.