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Nick Cake’s cellphone rang at 6:09 a.m. — not unusual for a defence lawyer with a steady practice at the beginning of his day.

But this call, last Friday morning, would shake the London lawyer to his core.

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The “very calm, very cool, very collected” voice on the line was his client, 35-year-old Sam Maloney, moments before he was shot dead by London police.

What Cake said he heard provides some dramatic — and concerning — insight into what happened at the red-brick bungalow at 52 Duchess Ave., when Maloney was shot by police officers during a pre-dawn raid on his home.

Authorities have rermained tight-lipped about the deadly clash, but Cake said he understands Maloney was “shot in the face.”

Cake said he’s already shared what he heard over the phone with the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the Ontario police watchdog agency looking into the shooting where a member of the London police emergency response unit was injured by a crossbow.