Accused killer alleged road rager
TRIAL: Court told Dustin Moir got into heated confrontation with motorist
As he awaited his second trial in connection with the 2005 murder of a 14-year-old girl, Dustin Blue Robert Moir allegedly got into a road-rage confrontation in Maple Ridge last summer.
The alleged target of Moir’s rage testified Tuesday at Moir’s trial in provincial court in Port Coquitlam. Moir has pleaded not guilty to one count of uttering threats.
Richard Willson, a transmission rebuilder, testified that he was returning from a road test in a customer’s car when the incident occurred.
Willson said he slowed down to wait for a cyclist before making a right turn from Lougheed Highway onto Laity Street and noticed the man behind him was honking his horn and screaming.
Willson ignored the man, made the turn and parked in the lot in front of the transmission shop where he works.
He saw the man drive by in a blue Nissan Murano and scream, “What the f--- are you doing?”
A co-worker offered to go and “find out what his problem is” but Willson told the man not to worry about it and the co-worker left.
Willson finished with the customer’s car and was checking the oil when he heard a voice behind him shout, “I have a f---ing kid in the car. What are you doing? I almost rearended you.”
“I said, ‘Then you should drive more carefully and not follow so close,’ ” Willson testified.
He said the man got nose-to-nose with him and screamed that he was going to “rip my f---ing face off and then he said he’s going to f---ing kill me.”
“I told him, ‘I’m standing here, it’s your move,’ ” Willson said.
Willson’s co-worker had returned and was standing nearby.
He told the man that it was time for him to leave and followed him off the lot.
Willson’s co-worker returned a short time later and told them that after a further confrontation, the man got into his vehicle and ran into a sign post before driving away.
Willson’s boss went out to look for the vehicle and take photographs.
He then called police, who determined that the vehicle was leased by Moir’s wife.
At the time of the incident, Moir was on bail pending his second murder trial.
In February 2010, a B.C. Supreme Court jury convicted Moir of first-degree murder and he was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Moir appealed his conviction and in January 2013 was granted a new trial.
Moir was released on bail in August 2013 and arrested on July 11, 2014, two days after the incident in Maple Ridge. He remains in custody. Moir is still awaiting his retrial.