25-year-old Melissa Blimkie's autopsy revealed 15 stab wounds, 'defensive wounds' to her hands and forearms and old bruises on her face and arms, according to forensic pathologist Eric Bol, who testified at the second-degree murder trial of Blimkie's boyfriend, 30-year-old Everton Javaun Downey Friday.
'No! What the f ? Get out!' said one Metrotown resident when Everton Javaun Downey entered his apartment without knocking and asked to stay for 20 minutes, according to testimony at Downey's murder trial Thursday.
Everton Javaun Downey, 33, is on trial for second-degree murder in the death of 25-year-old Melissa Blimkie at the Metrotown mall in Burnaby on Dec. 19, 2021.
Everton Javaun Downey is on trial for second-degree murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend Melissa Blimkie, in a Metrotown mall stairwell in 2021.
Everton Javaun Downey, 32, has been ordered to stand trial in BC Supreme Court after a two-day preliminary inquiry that wrapped up in Vancouver provincial court Tuesday. He is accused of second degree murder in the death of Melissa Blimkie in December 2021.