An eyewitness account and grainy videos captured horrifying glimpses of the altercation that led to the death of 16-year-old Ahmad Maher Al Marrach near the Halifax Shopping Centre. The 17-year-old accused pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.
Ahmad Maher Al Marrach is shown in an undated family handout photo. The 16-year-old was pronounced dead in hospital after he was found badly injured near the Halifax Shopping Centre on April 22, 2024.The trial for a Halifax -area youth accused of participating in the killing of a 16-year-old student last year heard Tuesday from an eyewitness to the stabbing and was shown videos that captured horrifying glimpses of the crime.
Melanie Adolph told the judge-only trial she had taken her two children to the mall that day and was putting them in her vehicle around 5 p.m. when she heard a commotion nearby. As she walked toward a group of about a dozen rowdy young people in the mall’s parkade, she saw two teen boys scuffling on the concrete floor, the 38-year-old woman testified.
The third video shown in court appears to have been recorded by a cellphone held by one of the teens involved in the melee. It shows close-up images of Al Marrach struggling with another teen before they both fall to the floor, where others kick him and stomp on his head. Adolph testified that as she came within a metre of the brawl, she starting shouting at the group. “I was swearing and yelling at them and telling them to scatter,” she said, adding that she thought the fight was over when the two boys separated and rose to their feet.
“I was pleading with them for help,” she said. “The kids were running around and jumping. It was chaos.”
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