A 911 call was played in court on Monday in the first-degree murder trial of a Clearview Township man accused of killing his wife.
The call starts with the accused, Mitchell Brooks, telling the dispatcher that his wife, Deena Brooks, had been shot.
As the call plays out, the dispatcher eventually asks, “Where was she shot?” Brooks responds by saying, “In the chest.”
Shortly after, the dispatcher asks, “Who shot her?” Brooks says, “Uh, we were fighting over (the gun).”
Deena Brooks, 50, was killed in May of 2013 – she was a lab technician at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie.
On Monday, two OPP officers who examined the scene back in 2013 took the stand. So did Dr. Toby Rose, the forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Brooks.
Rose testified that Deena, "was bleeding and that means she was alive when she was shot."
She also told the court it was difficult to determine the range at which Deena had been shot because the bullet wound, “had characteristics that made it difficult to determine the range of the gunshot."
Brooks showed some emotion when the Crown showed pictures from her autopsy. He could be seen wiping tears from his eyes and put his head down.
The trial will resume on Tuesday and is expected to take six weeks to complete.
