Wayne Millard Murder Trial - Dellen Millard Charged With Murder - #1

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 1m1 minute ago
Leonard says the coroner told him that night that he had located a gun on the scene. #Millard

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC now33 seconds ago
The coroner "held up a black Lululemon shopping bag" the officer says, in which the gun was found. The key thing here is the gun and bag were moved. #Millard

 

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC now29 seconds ago
We're now seeing one of the crime scene photos of Millard's body again. #Millard

 

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 26s26 seconds ago
Leonard says the coroner told him, "The bag and gun were on the floor wedged between the bed and the dresser." He says the coroner "pulled it from the bed and the dresser." #Millard

 

[Kamille]

So the bag was wedged between the dresser and the bed. Probably something WM had put there when he used the bag, not realizing it was from a yoga clothing store. Probably found it thrown somewhere in the house and picked it up when he was going shopping for something. Can't see frugal WM paying for shopping bags.

So DM probably just put the gun at the level of WM's outstretched left hand and dropped it. It landed on/in the bag that was beside the bed.

MOO

 

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 3m3 minutes ago
The coroner also told him that Millard appeared to have head trauma, he says. #Millard

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 38s38 seconds ago
The officer says he doesn't remember if he touched the gun, or anything else in the bedroom. #Millard

 

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 3m3 minutes ago
Leonard says Millard also told someone on scene that his dad may have given away the guns a couple of years ago, but if they were around, they would be in a safe in the basement. #Millard

 

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 1m1 minute ago
Leonard says Millard's demeanour at the scene where his father was dead was "very calm." #Millard

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC now45 seconds ago
Leonard says says Madeleine Burns, Dellen Millard's mother, told him there "may be firearms" in an upstairs safe, too. #Millard

 

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 5m5 minutes ago
This is the home's basement. The officer says there were pipes, rolling papers and a "quantity of a leafy green substance" found there. #Millard

 

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 36s36 seconds ago
The Crown is finished questioning. Millard's lawyer is now cross-examining. #Millard

 

[Miranda]

Not to get all nit-picky or anything, but there are actually only 3 LCBO bags in this pic.

And one Lululemon bag (to the right of the desk).

Adam Carter on Twitter

 

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 53s54 seconds ago
Pillay is again asking about the search in the basement, again pointing out that the search wasn't as extensive as it would be for a proper search warrant. #Millard

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 12s13 seconds ago
Pillay is done. The officer is finished. #Millard.

 

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC now39 seconds ago
The next witness is another police officer: Sgt. Richard Nimmo. #Millard

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 2m2 minutes ago
He's been with Toronto police for 20 years. #Millard

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 1m1 minute ago
He was the supervisor on the shift the night that Millard died. #Millard

 

[Kamille]

So DM and possibly MB were calmly telling the officers why this was likely a suicide.

No distraught family member would behave in this way after finding their loved one deceased if they weren't responsible IMO.

 

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 2m2 minutes ago
He was told Madeleine Burns had called in and said she was at her ex-husband's house with her son, and believed he had "passed away." #Millard

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 15s15 seconds ago
Nimmo says he was the first officer on scene. Paramedics were already there. He spoke with Burns and Millard, he says. #Millard

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC now19 seconds ago
He says paramedics told him that Wayne Millard had a history of alcoholism, and it's not uncommon for the blood vessels in the throat of an alcoholic to burst. #Millard

 

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 2m2 minutes ago
Nimmo says he spoke with Dellen Millard and Madeleine Burns in the kitchen of the home. #Millard

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 49s49 seconds ago
Nimmo says Burns was "very upset ... crying, and agitated." #Millard

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC now21 seconds ago
Nimmo says he also spoke with Millard in the house: "I don't recall him having any overt emotional reactions." #Millard

 

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 28s29 seconds ago
Nimmo says their initial conversation was very brief. Then he started speaking with paramedics, and went into the room with Millard's body. #Millard

 

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 50s50 seconds ago
Nimmo says Millard was on his left side in bed, with his right hand under his left cheek. His left hand was extended off the bed, palm up. "There was blood all over the pillow, down the side of the bed ... there was blood all over the victim's face." #Millard

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 44s44 seconds ago
Nimmo says a paramedic told him all the blood could again "be a sign of alcoholism." #Millard

 

[Kamille]

Adam Carter‏Verified account @AdamCarterCBC 31s31 seconds ago
The Crown now asking several questions about if any officers would touch Millard's body. Nimmo says no, to preserve the scene. #Millard

 

[deugirtni]

Interesting that all the news outlets sent someone on day 1 of the trial and it appears that none were sent today other than Adam Carter for the CBC. Was there that little interest in the stories yesterday? Perhaps there was and the media aren't going to pay their reporters to cover this trial?

I have noticed same thing in other trials as well. They show up for Day#1, and then possibly later on if there is a witness scheduled who is particularly newsworthy. Thank you CBC for sending Adam Carter!!!!!

 

[Kamille]

The paramedics couldn't look around the area and see a gun on the floor beside the bed?

How could they have perceived this as a natural death of an alcoholic other than by what the family members were saying? Did they see any excessive empty bottles lying around the room?