Husbands continues testimony at Eaton Centre murder trial
Posted November 25, 2014 8:24 am.
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A man accused of a revenge shooting in a crowded food court of a downtown Toronto mall is to continue testifying on Tuesday at his own murder trial.
Christopher Husbands told court on Monday that he didn’t agree with the Crown’s suggestion that the attack was because he’d had sex with the mother of one of his assailants.
Husbands — who has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder — testified he doesn’t know what was behind the attack.
The 25-year-old man has admitted to opening fire at the Eaton Centre in June 2012, killing two people, injuring five others and sparking panic and chaos.
However, he denies going to the mall intending to kill anyone.
The Crown contends the shooting was deliberate payback for an incident months earlier in which several men stabbed and robbed Husbands at an east-end home. Among the assailants was a 22-year-old man — one of the two mall victims — whose mother Husbands had slept with.
“I’ve heard rumours that he had a problems with me, but I don’t know why he would have a problem with me because I never really do anything to this guy,” Husbands told the jury.
Husbands had refused to name his attackers to police.
