Strathmore woman was gunned down in her home
Crown contends jilted boyfriend shot Walker multiple times in 2015, then fled
Strathmore woman Brenda Walker was shot multiple times in her head and torso, the trial of her former boyfriend heard Monday.
In her opening address to a Calgary jury, Crown prosecutor Lori Chambers detailed the case she and co-counsel Jim Sawa expect to call against Glenn Randall.
“In the early morning hours of Jan. 6, 2015 ...(Brenda Walker) was tragically shot and killed inside her residence,” Chambers told the 12-member jury hearing Randall’s case.
“She died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds to her head and torso,” she said.
Chambers said Walker, 49, was living alone in a Strathmore fourplex.
“She and Mr. Randall had been in a romantic relationship that had ended in December 2014.”
Chambers said the day before her killing, Walker received text messages from Randall, who faces a charge of first-degree murder in her death.
“A couple of hours later Brenda placed a call to 911 advising there was a man at her door with a gun,” Chambers said.
She said an upstairs neighbour heard multiple gunshots in the early morning of Jan. 6, 2015.
“He looked out his window and saw Brenda’s former boyfriend, Mr. Randall, fleeing the residence,” Chambers said.
Randall lived just a short distance away.
The neighbour called 911 and Mounties arrived at Walker’s residence about 1:30 a.m., finding her face down on the floor.
A short time later, Randall’s sister in New Brunswick called Strathmore RCMP, the prosecutor said.
“She was reporting her brother, Glenn, had just called her from his truck telling her he had just shot Brenda and he was driving away from Strathmore.”
That information was conveyed to police who were able to contact Randall and have him turn himself in peacefully, the prosecutor said.
“During his interactions with (police), Mr. Randall made some admissions relating to his involvement in Brenda’s death,” she said.
Chambers also said Randall talked to three different women that morning, all of whom are expected to testify in the trial.
Police later searched Randall’s truck after he turned himself in, jurors were told.
“They located four loaded firearms,” the prosecutor said.
A firearms expert is expected to tell jurors one of those guns was used to shoot Walker.
The trial is set to last three weeks.