April 22, 2025, 11:22 am
Closing arguments are underway in a high-profile trial involving two suspects accused of fatally shooting an OPP officer. Both sides now present their final cases amid intense public scrutiny, as legal experts dissect earlier lapses and emerging evidence in what could prove a landmark moment for provincial law enforcement.
They were partners in love — and crime. That’s what prosecutors urged the jury to find in order to convict both Randall McKenzie and girlfriend Brandi Stewart-Sperry of first-degree murder in the execution of OPP Const. Greg Pierczala in a hail of bullets fired from a trafficked Glock 19. In...
In his closing argument at the first-degree murder trial that began a month ago in Cayuga, Ont., Crown prosecutor Fraser McCracken said Randall McKenzie shot Const. Greg Pierzchala and Brandi Stewart-Sperry helped him do it.
'Randall McKenzie and Brandi Stewart-Sperry, together as a team and separately as individuals, had a problem. If the police came to the scene, they were going to get arrested'
Closing submissions are underway in the trial of two people accused of murder in the shooting death of a provincial police officer.
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