'Everything in the trunk, burn it,' accused says in phone call from correctional centre played at murder trial
Dan Zakreski | CBC News | Posted: September 14, 2018 7:06 PM | Last Updated: September 14, 2018
Shaylin Sutherland-Kayseas is accused of 1st-degree murder in the 2016 death of Dylan Phillips
Prosecutors say the damning instructions come on call No. 42, recorded on the Pine Grove Correctional Centre phone system two weeks after the fatal 2016 shooting of Dylan Phillips.
"Everything in the trunk, burn it," Shaylin Sutherland-Kayseas says on the call, worried about incriminating evidence from the shooting, according to prosecutors, who presented the call as evidence at her first-degree murder trial at Saskatoon's Court of Queen's Bench on Friday.
She goes on in the call to give instructions about where to locate her silver Chevrolet Impala.
She is also heard asking that fellow gang members kick in cash to get a defence lawyer.
"Get everyone to drop a bill," she said. "Get me Morris f--king Bodnar."
On Friday, prosecutors began playing five of 150 recorded phone calls Sutherland-Kayseas made from the Pine Grove Correctional Centre in Prince Albert, Sask.
She was there on unrelated charges, but is now charged with first-degree murder in the death of Phillips, 26, who was beaten with a fence board and shot at his home on Saskatoon's Avenue G North on Oct. 14, 2016. He died at the scene.
According to earlier witnesses who testified this week, Sutherland-Kayseas was panicking by the time the phone calls were made.
The witnesses testified word was out that she had killed Phillips and that there was evidence linking her to the crime scene, including bloody clothing worn by his killers that was stored in garbage bags in her car.
Kathleen Belanger said in court Monday that Sutherland-Kayseas bragged about how she killed Phillips during a drug deal. She said the story emerged while a group drove around in a silver Impala used the night of the killing.
"Shaylin was bragging that she bodied somebody, that her and Trent Southwind were part of a murder. It was a drug deal gone bad," Belanger said.
"The clothes they used were in the trunk. It was sloppy, stupid shit."
Southwind and a youth both later pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the killing.
Sutherland-Kayseas admitted during a four-hour police interview that she fatally shot Phillips, the court has heard. But she claimed that it happened by accident when he lunged at the sawed-off rifle she was pointing at him.
She said they intended to rob him, not kill him.
The trial, which began on Sept. 10, continues next week.