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The German tourist shot last summer while driving west of Calgary was a victim of mistaken identity, a witness testified Monday.

The woman, whom Postmedia isn’t naming to protect the name of the accused gunman, who is a minor, said her cousin ordered the shooting to avenge the beating of his younger brother.

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”They mistaked it for somebody else,” the woman testified at the youth’s provincial court trial.

She agreed with defence lawyer Balfour Der’s suggestion her cousin believed the black SUV they saw on Highway 1A last Aug. 2, was being driven by someone named Bubba.

Her cousin believed Bubba had beaten up his little brother, she said.

But the witness disagreed with Der’s suggestion the accused, now 17, never touched the firearm her cousin produced as he pulled up to the SUV being driven by German tourist Horst Stewin.

“He had the gun he was getting it ready and he shot it out the window,” she said.