A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 27, 1994

Vehicle pulled from river

Accident still a mystery

TERRACE RCMP have so far
been unable to determine why
a car drove into the Skeena
River near Cedarvale June 10,
drowning two south Okanagan
residents.

“Right now the results from
the autopsy (of the driver) and
the mechanical inspection give
us no cause for the accident,”’
Staff Sergeant John Veldman
said last week.

“TI don’t know if we'll ever
be able to come up with a rea-
son why the car left the high-
way,”’ he added,

Drowned were Franklin
Augustus Wheeler, 63, fom
Westbridge and Patricia
Louise Leir, 63, from Kaleden.

run off time and treacherous
diving conditions prevented
the removal’of the car and pas-
sengers from the river bed un-
til last week.

A large crane was able to lift
the vehicle out of the river

life

in jail

A 26-YEAR-OLD Terrace man
was found guilty of second de-
gree murder by a Supreme Court
jury here last week.

Dwain Elliot Taylor received a
life sentence with eligibility for
parole in 10 years for the murder
of 31-year-old Gale Annette Mor-
rison, a Spruce Street group home
resident.

Her body was found in a
wooded area near Col-Smith
Road in ‘Thornhili on April 11,

1993,
A forensic pathologist from

Vancouver told the court that an |

autopsy of Morrison's body
showed extensive skull fractures
caused by ‘‘very severe force.’”

The pathologist said she
believed Morrison had received
four blows to the head but the
first blow had !eft her uncon-
scious.

Defence lawyers Dave Warner
and Holly Grneger argued that
the charge of second degree mur-
der should be reduced to mans-
laughter.

Based on testimony from
Taylor, Warner said Taylor hed
been provoked because Morrison
had kicked him in the groin.

The alleged kick occurred after
the two had met on the street in
the morning of April 11, 1993,
Taylor told the court,

They talked for a while and
then decided to go to a nearby
wooded area lo have sex, Taylor
said.

Whea the two were getting
dressed, Taylor told the court, he
handed Morrison her jacket that
was dirty from being on the
ground.

She was angry about the dirt on
her jacket, according to Taylor,
so she kicked him in the groin.

He didn’t mean to hurt her,
Taylor told the court, but he said
he just ‘went berserk”? when she
kicked him.

A charge of second degree mur-
der can be reduced to mans-
laughter if it can proven that the
accused acted ‘'in the heat of pas-
sion caused by sudden provoca-
tion,” according io the Canadian
Criminal Code,

Crown prosecutors argued the
charge should remein as second
degree murder because there was
no testimony or evidence to back
up Taylor’s claim he had been
kicked.

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“It went into 30 feet of
water. The water was too high
and there was virtually zero
visibility. It was simply too
dangerous for our people to go
down there and recover the
vehicle,’’ said Veldman of the
periad between the accident
and the time the vehicle was
recovered.

The autopsy ruled out the
possibility the driver suffered
a heart attack and further tests
have been ordered.

“Something in the tests may
be able to give us a contribut-
ing factor,”’ said Veldman.

“There waS mo reason we

High water during the June know of for the vehicle to

leave the highway. There was
not a passing situation, noth-
ing,’” he said.

- Veldman added that an
eyewitness to the accident told
police the vehicle simply left
the road.

vale June 10 was recovered by divers and a crane last week.

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