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BATTLEFORD – Gerald Stanley’s son Sheldon is expected to testify in court today about the events surrounding the death of Colten Boushie.

Stanley, 56, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in connection with the 2016 shooting death of Boushie, a Cree man from the Red Pheasant First Nation.

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Boushie was 22 years old when he was fatally shot on Aug. 9, 2016 after he and four friends drove onto Stanley’s farm in the Rural Municipality of Glenside. Crown Prosecutor Bill Burge delivered his opening arguments to the jury at Battleford Court of Queen’s Bench on Tuesday before calling his first witnesses.

Details of the day Boushie died laid out in opening statement

Burge told the jury that Stanley’s son Sheldon will testify he was at his father’s farm helping build a fence when a grey Ford Escape drove into the yard and stopped beside one of the Stanleys’ quads. According to Burge’s opening statement, someone from the Escape attempted to start the quad and then Sheldon ran toward the Escape and struck its windshield with a hammer.