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The prosecution painted a picture Thursday of a stewing Sean Haverty waiting at his house for Chris Schweiter to return home so he could go shoot him.
Day 9 of Haverty's first degree murder trial at Ontario Superior Court of Justice saw Crown attorney Judith MacDonald cross-examine Haverty.
"You were mad. You were going to shoot him. You went over there to shoot him," MacDonald said in a 90-minute cross-examination of the accused.
She told Haverty that he "percolated" all day, angry at Schweitzer over several run-ins between the two men, who lived two doors apart on
"You carried out your plan, didn't you?" the Crown asked.
"No," Haverty replied.
The only other defence witness in the case,
Haverty received six significant lacerations after Schweitzer smashed a bong in his face before being shot.
With no more witnesses to call, MacDonald, defence counsel Ari Goldkind and Justice Nancy Mossip will now deliberate some legal issues in absence of the jury, who are expected to return to court on Wednesday morning to hear the lawyer's closing arguments.
That will be followed by Justice Mossip's charge to the jury, which will then retire to deliberate their decision.
MacDonald used a portion of her cross-examination to highlight inconsistencies in what Haverty told police the day after Schweitzer was killed and what he said on the witness stand in court the last two days.
Portions of a video interview of Haverty by Guelph Police Det.-Const. Brian Welsh the day after the incident were played.
Haverty admitted lying to Welsh about how much alcohol he had consumed the day in question.
Haverty also told the police officer that he kept the loaded gun in a jacket pocket in his closet "because this guy (Schweitzer) is freaking me out."
"Just in case?" Welsh asked him.
"Yes," Haverty replied.
MacDonald asked Haverty on the stand why the gun was kept loaded.
"Because an unloaded gun isn't very helpful," he replied.
"Christopher Schweitzer was giving you dirty looks and you wanted to be prepared to shoot him," MacDonald said.
"That's not correct," Haverty replied.
He repeated earlier evidence that the gun was in his pocket when he knocked on Schweitzer's door "to scare him" and that he only pulled it out and fired when he was hit in the face by Schweitzer.
"I produced the gun after I got hit," he said.
To which MacDonald asked, "you had the wherewithal as you're falling backwards to pull the gun out of your pocket?"
"Correct," the accused replied.
He again denied going into Schweitzer's porch, where drops of his blood were found, and said "I can't comment on that" when asked why expert evidence showed the gun was only inches away from Schweitzer when the trigger was pulled.
"Your blood's inside the porch Mr. Haverty," MacDonald said.
"That's what they say," he replied.
"Yes, that's what they say," MacDonald said.
Haverty denied making several statements that prosecution witnesses have said they overheard him making, including "I got the fucker and the fucker got me" and "it's a good day for someone to die" or words to that effect.
Haverty said he went to the hospital in Fergus for treatment to his badly cut face because he feared for his safety if he went to
"I didn't want to get shot," he said.
MacDonald asked Haverty if he hated Schweitzer, with whom he had at least three altercations with.
"I wouldn't go as far as that," Haverty replied.
She reminded Haverty of his use of the word "retard" to describe the 6-foot-2, 300-pound, mentally-challenged Schweitzer.
"Why would you call him 'retard' then?" she asked.
"It's just a phrase you use," Haverty replied.
"Do you agree that if anyone was acting in self-defence that day it was Christopher Schweitzer because you threatened to shoot him?" the Crown asked.
"I would not agree with that," he replied.
Following questioning from MacDonald, Haverty was asked a few redirect questions from his own lawyer.
Haverty said he didn't know the legal implications of lying to police about his drinking and that he remembered more about his actions following the shooting than before it because the shooting "sobered him up."
He repeated earlier evidence that he had no idea he had shot someone until told several hours later when he was arrested.
Haverty also agreed that blood went "flying" everywhere after he was hit in the face with the bong by Schweitzer, perhaps accounting for the blood in the porch, a key prosecution point throughout the trial.