The lawyer for one of the men accused in a machete attack at a Prince George motel in August 2022 told a B.C. Supreme Court judge that his client acted in self-defense. Dakota Rayn Keewatin, 31, and Kerridge Andrew Lowley, 49, face charges of break and enter and aggravated assault after the incident at the Econo Lodge City Centre Inn. Victim Arlen Chalifoux required extensive surgery to repair serious injuries to his right arm.
The lawyer for one of the men accused in a machete attack on a resident of a Prince George motel in August 2022 told a B.C. Supreme Court judge on Thursday, Jan. 30 that his client acted in self-defence.
In the second day of closing arguments, Jason LeBlond told Justice John Gibb-Carsley that Keewatin knocked on Chalifoux’s room 255 door and waited to be let in, only to be met with violence. Closing arguments began Tuesday, Jan. 28 with Crown prosecutor Andrea Norlund arguing that surveillance camera footage and Chalifoux’s testimony were enough to find the two men guilty beyond reasonable doubt. Norlund said the “only reasonable conclusion” is that Keewatin and Lowley were the same people who entered Chalifoux’s room and participated in the assault.
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