VANCOUVER 鈥� Surrey Six witness Helen Lee said she was nearly run over by a black BMW with suspicious men wearing hoodies and leather gloves inside in the Balmoral Tower parkade on the afternoon of the slayingss.
Lee testified Monday that she was with her then three-year-old son after a Bible study in the Surrey highrise at about 2:25 p.m. on Oct. 19, 2007.
As she attempted to go around the car, it backed up suddenly, nearly striking her and her child, she told Justice Catherine Wedge through an interpreter.
Lee said she was 鈥渟tunned and got angry鈥� and quickly headed to her own vehicle with her young son.
鈥淎s I was pulling out my car to leave the parkade, at that moment two people got out of the BMW. They went across my car,鈥� she said. 鈥淓ach of them opened their door from their own seat. Both of them, they covered their faces with their hoods and both had leather gloves on.鈥�
Lee said 鈥渢he person that was sitting in the drivers鈥� seat was tall. The person next to him in the passenger seat was shorter.鈥�
Crown Mark Levitz has told the court that accused killers Cody Haevischer, Matt Johnston and someone only known as Person X arrived at the Balmoral Tower about 2:25 p.m. that day and made their way to suite 1505 on the penthouse floor.
The Crown submits that Haevischer, Johnston and Michael Le were hunting for rival drug trafficker Corey Lal, who was killed that day along with five others in suite 1505.
Lee also testified Monday that she was so upset about her encounter with the men in the black BMW that she called her friend afterward to recount what had happened.
She also said she saw a third man in the parkade who was holding a door open that led to the building鈥檚 elevator.
Meanwhile, a series of admissions read into the record at the trial was provided to reporters Monday. The admissions say that police found crack cocaine in several locations inside 1505 after the killings.
There were two white Pyrex dishes in the oven of 1505 that had a substance believed to be cocaine on them. There was also 119 grams of crack cocaine in the freezer and more crack cocaine in the kitchen cupboards, the admissions say.
Also in the exhibit are details of Eileen Mohan鈥檚 final call to her son Christopher, an uninvolved victim of the Surrey Six slayings.
Mohan called home about 2聽p.m. on Oct. 19 to talk to her son, who had agreed to wait at home for a gas technician before heading to his basketball game.
鈥淐hristopher told his mom that the fireplace technician was there. The duration of the call was between one and one and one-half minutes,鈥� the admissions say. 鈥淭his was the last time that Mrs. Mohan ever spoke with Christopher.鈥�
The document describes how the BMW was later seized by police on Oct. 23, 2007, at a Burnaby auto detailing business where it had taken for cleaning.
The admissions also document Red Scorpion tattoos on Haevischer, Johnston, Le and Jamie Bacon, who is also accused in the Surrey Six murders, but is being tried separately.
