New testimony in Musgrave case

A jury heard testimony Wednesday from the woman convicted of helping accused killer Tyrone Chambers escape to Halifax. And we also have several new court exhibits we can show you to give you a better sense of the chaos at 53 Dundurn Street in March of 2010, the night Brandon Musgrave was shot to death. Lisa Hepfner reports from Dundurn Street.

Yaasmiyn Davidson is 23-years old now and has served her six months of house arrest for unsafe storage of ammunition and for attempting to obstruct justice. She was not happy to be in the limelight of this case once again, as you can see from the video we shot today outside the courthouse.

Davidson was limping in court, and distraught at the attention. She pleaded guilty to her part in the crime last year, and spent 17 days in jail before sentencing. She chewed gum noisily as she testified.

She told the court she had been dating Tyrone Chambers for two years, and they had just gotten an apartment together. But she didn’t go to the party on Dundurn Street on March 12, 2010 because she had food poisoning.
But he called and texted her several times in the wee hours telling her he needed her to pick him up. She eventually got the message and obliged. Chambers told her then that “the person he was with got him caught up in something he didn’t want to be involved with.”

Earlier, court heard testimony from a cabbie who picked up the other accused, Joshua Warner. He was told that Chambers was the killer.

A few days after the murder, Davidson drove Chambers to Yorkdale Mall and bought two cell phones under fake names so they could communicate, then watched him leave in a black car. He was arrested weeks later in Halifax.

In her room at her parents house, Davidson stored Chambers’ electronics, $4,000 in cash, partially stuffed in a boot, and bullets in a box high in her closet.

The jury also saw surveillance video from that night that shows Chambers and Warner arriving at the party with bags in their hands. It then shows both of them running away afterward, as wounded and distraught partygoers gesture frantically on the porch.

The woman who made the 911 call is protected under a publication ban, and we have altered her voice in this recording: “Please hurry, hang on I’m on the phone. It’s right across from Fortino’s Plaza. Someone was shot in the chest and someone was shot in the head.”

Of course, the person shot in the head was Brandon Musgrave, whose large family has been sitting stoically through this testimony often surrounded by friends.

Yaasmiyn Davidson continues on the stand under cross-examination by defence lawyers Thursday morning.