testified Wednesday<\/a> as part of the Crown’s examination-in-chief, describing how he found Marshall dead on the kitchen floor of the apartment she shared with Mattila\u00a0at 185 John St. At one point on Wednesday, he was shown a crime scene photo of Marshall taken after she had died.<\/p>\nOn Thursday, Dawson was cross-examined by defence attorney\u00a0Andrew Furgiuele.<\/p>\n
“Yesterday was not a good day for you?”\u00a0Furgiuele asked.<\/p>\n
“No, sir,” responded Dawson.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Furgiuele promised not to show Dawson any\u00a0photos from the kitchen during cross-examination.<\/p>\n
“I appreciate that,” said Mattila.<\/p>\n
Furgiuele asked Dawson to clarify some comments made the previous day about the unlocked doors at the apartment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mattila\u00a0said the dead bolt on the front door was unlocked, which would not be unusual when Marshall was home, as she would have locked the interior door accessible from the mudroom.<\/p>\n
That wasn’t the case when he got home on Sept. 7, 2023. Instead he found the interior door was unlocked but barricaded closed from the inside by a couch.<\/p>\n
Mattila said he knocked at the interior door before trying the unlocked door handle. Pushing hard, he was able to nudge the door open just enough to see Marshall on the floor in the kitchen before he was able to eventually gain entry.<\/p>\n
He said he noticed the blood first, and at some point saw two pizza boxes in the living room \u2014 one on the floor and one on the back of a couch.<\/p>\n
Furgiuele\u00a0asked about items that\u00a0Dawson\u00a0noted were missing during the previous day’s testimony, including a hooded sweatshirt and a screwdriver \u2014 then asked if anything else was missing.<\/p>\n
He said a broken Samsung cell phone, Marshall’s pink iPhone\u00a0and a folding knife that he had given to Marshall were also missing.<\/p>\n
Furgiuele showed a photo of the contents of Marshall’s purse, which police said was on her person when she was found. Among the items in the photo was a coin purse, a card wallet and a black folding\u00a0knife that Mattila identified as the one he gave her.<\/p>\n
Defence then asked Mattila about whether the rear window was open or closed when he left the apartment on the morning of the killing. Photos\u00a0were\u00a0previously presented in court on Tuesday\u00a0of the window open with a slice cut into the screen.<\/p>\n
“I know Taylor could not open it herself and I did not open it,” he replied.<\/p>\n
Testifying next was Dawson’s mother, Nicole Mattila. She and her husband Don\u00a0Ibbitson were called back to the apartment shortly after Dawson discovered the body and arrived prior to paramedics.<\/p>\n
They had just dropped Dawson home minutes earlier after picking him up from work. They had taken Dawson to a vape shop on Great\u00a0Northern Road before driving past the police scene on St. Marys River Drive, which was the scene of a stabbing attack that same day for which Jones is also charged.<\/p>\n
When she returned to 185 John St. after the call from Dawson, Nicole ran inside to find the apartment in disarray and Marshall on the floor covered in blood.<\/p>\n
“I went inside and I pushed the door open. I noticed there was blood everywhere,” she said.<\/p>\n
Asked to expand on that, Nicole said blood was on the floor by the front door, on the wall and TV stand, all over the kitchen floor and on the kitchen table. She also recalled seeing some bloody hand prints in the apartment.<\/p>\n
Dawson was on the kitchen floor calling 911 when she entered.<\/p>\n
“We were hoping there was a chance,” said Nicole about Marshall’s condition.<\/p>\n
Paramedics arrived and asked Dawson, Nicole and\u00a0Ibbitson to leave the apartment.<\/p>\n
“We tried not to step on anything, we tried to be careful,” she said, when asked if anything was moved while inside the apartment.<\/p>\n
Ibbitson then testified, saying he was driving the car when Dawson called his mother in hysterics.<\/p>\n
“I stepped on the gas and drove as fast as I could,” said\u00a0Ibbitson.<\/p>\n
He said Nicole entered the apartment first while he parked the car and followed shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n
Ibbitson said he knew something was wrong when he entered and saw the look on his wife’s face.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asked what he saw, Ibbitson replied,\u00a0\u201cMy wife was in shock, my son bent down on the floor on the phone with the 911 operator.\u201d<\/p>\n
“I was going to check for a pulse, but when I touched her shoulder I knew it was too late,\u201d he said, finding Marshall cold to the touch.<\/p>\n
Staff\u00a0Sgt. Richard Crema, a 28-year veteran\u00a0officer,\u00a0then testified that he and Cst. Mark Prophet were first police\u00a0to respond to the John Street scene, shortly after paramedics arrived.<\/p>\n
Crema, who held the rank of\u00a0sergeant at the time, said when he walked into the apartment he found bloody footprints on the floor and a large amount of blood in the kitchen. He noted the footprints appeared to have been made by bare feet.<\/p>\n
Marshall was on the floor, fully clothed wearing jeans, a black leather jacket and a purse on her body.<\/p>\n
He said the disorderly placement of furniture, along with the blood, gave him reason to believe there had been a struggle.<\/p>\n
Crema said sometime after Dawson and his parents left the scene, the young woman’s father, Ron Marshall arrived.<\/p>\n
“I told him that Taylor was inside and deceased but I didn\u2019t get into any detail with him on what I observed,\u201d said Crema about that interaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After speaking to Dawson at the scene, Crema said he didn’t believe Taylor’s live-in boyfriend was the killer, despite citing statistics suggesting a vast majority of violent deaths of females are found to be cause by their intimate partner.<\/p>\n
Asked why he didn’t suspect Mattila, Crema said: “Just based on his reaction, it was raw and emotional. It just didn\u2019t fit.”<\/p>\n
Instead, Crema said he thought at the time it appeared to be a random attack.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s just not something that happens in Sault\u00a0Ste.\u00a0Marie, based on my experience and training,” said Crema.<\/p>\n
He said another officer who arrived later on scene identified the tread of a bloody shoe print found outside of the apartment. By that time, Jones had been\u00a0in custody for hours after being arrested at Station Mall.<\/p>\n
Crema testified that he asked what kind of shoes the arrested man had been wearing, and was told they were the same as the ones that created the shoe print at the John Street scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite statistics showing intimate partners are often responsible for female homicides, a responding officer said he didn’t believe…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":502836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50,225501],"class_list":{"0":"post-502835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-trent-wilsontaylor-marshalljohn-street-homicideandrew-furgiueledawson-mattila"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115863025362120670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}