Voice and video recordings police made on the day of Christopher Fleig’s arrest show him as both articulate and erratic, speaking in long, rambling sentences and jumping from topic to topic.
Recordings made during and after Fleig’s arrest on March 29, 2010, were viewed on Wednesday and Thursday during a voir dire, or trial within a trial, in which the court will determine the admissibility of certain evidence.
Fleig, 28, is being tried before Justice Kirk Sisson in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench for the gang-style shooting on April 5, 2009, of Brandon Neil Prevey, 29, as he sat at the wheel of his vehicle in front of a house on Ibbotson Close in Red Deer.
A number of witnesses, including the woman who was with Prevey, have testified that a dozen or more shots came from the passenger side of a black, two-door car.
The woman was not injured.
Fleig is charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in relation to Prevey’s death.
Crown prosecutors Jason Snider and Tony Bell have put forward a theory that Fleig ordered the shooting and that the actual target was Prevey’s roommate.
Now wrapping up its second week, the trial is expected to continue for three more weeks.