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TOURIST SHOT

Crown rests its case in shooting of German tourist

Jul 18, 2019 | 8:31 AM

CALGARY- The Crown has rested its case in the Calgary trial of a teenager accused of firing a gun at a German tourist on a highway nearly two years ago.

Today, the teen’s lawyer is expected to tell the court if his client will take the witness stand.

Horst Stewin survived being shot in the head, but has debilitating injuries.

Yesterday, court listened to an interview that Stewin’s wife gave police in August of 2016.

She told officers that she remembered hearing a pop and then smelling the strong odour of gunpowder before her husband drove off the road on the Stoney Nakoda First Nation.

She says they had travelled along that route because her husband rides horses and was a fan of the western lifestyle.

Ulrike Stewin described the shooter as Caucasian and wearing a baseball cap.

She identified the other car as black instead of the red one the suspect was riding in, but said she was quote — “focused on the gun in the hand.”

(The Canadian Press)