Montreal Murder Trial: Unclear Brawl Leads to Death

0:00It's April 20th. This is Canada News today. Local news powered by AI. A 27-year-old man named Connor Patrick O'Loughen got stabbed to death on May 18, 2024, right in the hallway of. His apartment building on San Antoine Street West and Montreal's Sud West Burrow. It happened during a brawl with two brothers, Chad Pinot, who's 22, and Jaden Pinot, 19. They're both facing second-degree murder charges in a jury trial at the Montreal Courthouse. Prosecutors say one of the brothers did the stabbing while they both scrapped with O'Loughen, but the whole reason for the fight stays pretty. Unclear. O'Loughen was legally drunk that night, with a blood alcohol level of 122 mg per 100mL of blood way over. Quebec's limit for impaired driving. No one actually saw the stab happen. Not even O'Loughen's girlfriend who watched the fight unfold. She said he punched and shoved Jaden before stepping back.

1:00And when she looked again, he was down bleeding from a huge cut on his chest. Pathologists revealed he had cocaine. The most of any substance, pleasant and fetamine, and fluel-puzzolam, a designer drug not prescribed in Canada. All that was in his system from partying earlier at two bars. The stab went 17cm deep into his chest, slicing his heart with a 3.5cm gash and causing him to lose 2.9 litres of blood almost half what an average adult carries. As the trial rolls on, the jury's piecing together this messy puzzle.