Man pleads not guilty to teen’s slaying in 2021

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A 41-year-old Winnipeg man has pleaded not guilty to fatally stabbing a teenager outside a North End 7-Eleven store in the summer of 2021.

Clayton Marcano is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Andy Joseph McKay near the store at 119 Salter St., around 1 a.m. on July 28, 2021.

Crown attorney Colin Soul told the Court of King’s Bench on Monday that the two had had a disagreement, but he didn’t elaborate.

Soul, who didn’t provide an outline of the case against the accused, said he intends to call several Winnipeg Police Service officers, a doctor and a friend of the deceased as witnesses.

Const. Tiffany Veldkamp of the police forensic unit testified about taking photographs at the crime scene.

She noted identification officers and homicide detectives identified the location of surveillance cameras in the area and found a firearm near a garage.

On the day of the slaying, bloodstains were on the ground near trash bins in a lane by the store.

At the time, police said officers were called to respond to an assault behind the store and found two injured males.

McKay, who wasn’t breathing, was rushed to the Health Sciences Centre and pronounced dead a short time later.

Marcano was hospitalized in stable condition.

Homicide detectives announced he’d been charged with murder several days later.

erik.pindera@freepress.mb.ca