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Bde Aah a a aad aa fe iE "A Family Tradition for 131 Years" \) ---- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, February 4, 1997 -9 i | | Prosecutors attempt to recreate suspects' escape FromPage 1 owned by Mitchiel McArthur when the ar- rests were made. In earlier testimony at their trial in Whitby, court heard from a Durham Police officer who said he was driving north on Simcoe St. the night of the incidents when he saw a red Camaro Jake a U-turn and head back into the vil- age. e noted the licence number TEY 600 and police .that night traced the car to Mitchiel McArthur. In his testimony on Friday, Mr. Espie said the man he saw getting into the Camaro in the hospital parking lot was 28 to 35 years of age,of medium build, wore white running shoes, dark pants andlight shirt, and was carrying a white bag with some- thinginside it. He was not able to pick the man out of a "photo line-up" a few days after the rob- bery. That "line-up" of about a dozen pho- tos contained one of Angus McArthur, taken the day after his arrest. And he was not able to identify the man he saw getting into the car as Leing in the court room on Friday when asked the question by defense lawyer Peter Zaduk, who represents Angus McArthur. Court also heard testimony Friday after- noon from Al Loyst, who resides with his family on Old Simcoe St., and whose back yard abuts the ditch beside the west park- ing lot at Port Perry Hospital. He told the jury of six men and six wom- en he came home from work the night of the robbery and shootings about 11:45 PM to find his wife in a distraught frame of mind. Mr. Loyst said his wife was upset because the police had talked to her earli- erin the evening about what she had seen in the back yard. Mr. Loyst said he took a flashlight and went to the back yard to check if his gar- den shed was secure. He saw what looked like a dark colored toque and white surgical glove on the ground in his back yard. He summoned police officers who were in the hospital parking lot, and they removed the glove and toque later that night. Mr. Loyst said at no time did he touch the two objects. Mr. Loyst's wife is expected to be called as a witness when court resumes hearing direct testimony this coming Monday, Feb. 10. Crown attorneys Michael Hill and Lori- Ann Taylor took evidence last week from severab-witnesses to piece together the movement of the two suspects as they fled on foot from the plaza after 29 shots (pos- sibly as many as 31) were fired, most from a .223 calibre military rifle that wounded a real estate agent and three Durham Po- lice officers. Don Arnold of Borelia Court said he was walking on the street when he heard what he thought were gunshots. He quickly went to his daughter's home on the Court and from the rear window saw two men running across the lot at the rear of the Canadian Tire Store. He said one was carrying a rifle with scope and magazine clip, and he appeared "to be having trouble with the clip." Both wore balaclavas and one was carrying a white bag "filled with something", said Ar- nold. An ammunition clip fitting a .223 Steyr Aug rifle was found at 1:16 a.m. by police near the scene. William Christie told court he was out- side his home on Borelia Crescent when he heard what he thought were "fire- works." A: * 80 Water Street, Port Perry Free Delivery 085-8448 in a Limited Area J PIZZA & SUBS He saw two people run through the park- ing lot at the rear of Canadian Tire, jump a fence and then drive off along Borelia Crescent on two bicycles that were near the fence. Both wore dark colored balacla- vas, he said, and one had a black gun on the front of the bicycle. Still thinking they could be teens up to pranks with firecrackers, he challenged one by saying, "I'll kick your ass if I see you around here with firecrackers." To which he said one of the men replied, "Those were not firecrackers." Mr. Christie said he went into the house for his car keys and tried to follow the pair up Borelia Cresc., but lost sight of them af- ter they turned left onto Carnegie St. Dane Young, a Lakeview Dr. resident, testified that on the Saturday morning af- ter the Thursday evening incidents he no- ticed a bicycle hanging from barbed wire on top of a fence that divides his rear yard from the Van Camp Construction proper- ty. On closer inspection, Young said, he saw a second bike lying on the ground near the fence. He testified there was also on the fence what looked like a piece of rubber from a glove. He notified police, who took photos of the bicycles before they were taken away in an identification van. The bikes belonged to Jason Donohue, . 16, and the mother of his 14- year old friend, Tyler Mark. They were last seen at the Mark residence on Bigelow St. the eve- ning before the incidents in the plaza. Ambulance attendant Brian Piggot tes- tified he was responding to the emergency at the Bank of Montreal at 7:60 p.m., and was northbound on Simcoe St. in the am- bulance. Near the Oddfellows Hall, about 40 yards in front of his ambulance, he saw two men cross the highway on foot from the east and disappear into the field on the west side. He was not able to get a good look at them, other than to state one appeared to be wearinglight colored cloth- ing. Port Perry resident Leland Shaw told the court that the evening of Oct. 20 he and his wife were at the laundromat on the north side of Hwy. 7A, across from the Port PerryPlaza. He said he heard gunshots coming from the direction of the plaza, saw police cruis- er lights go on briefly, then go off, and could see flashes coming from the south end of the plaza. He went into the plaza parking lot and said he saw a man leaning against an un- Inirked cruiser that was stopped in the ot. Mr. Leland said he recognized the man as Durham Police Detective Paul Mooy, and he helped him to rest behind a con- crete pillar on the sidewalk before going over to a marked cruiser where he saw a police officer behind the wheel bleeding rom a head wound. Mr. Leland said when the ambulances started to arrive, he went home, "very up- set," and decided to go for a drive to try to calm down. Driving south on Simcoe St., Mr. Le- land said he saw a red Camaro, also south- bound, make a U-turn and head north back into Port Perry. 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