Man accused of killing Manitoba woman testifies she came at him with knife
Posted May 6, 2019 10:49 am.
Last Updated May 6, 2019 6:36 pm.
This article is more than 5 years old.
WINNIPEG — A man accused of killing an Indigenous woman in Manitoba says he blacked out before realizing she was dead on his basement floor.
Brett Overby, who is 32, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of 21-year-old Christine Wood.
Wood had travelled to Winnipeg from Oxford House First Nation in northern Manitoba in the summer of 2016.
She was staying with her parents in a hotel when she met Overby through a dating website.
Her body was found nearly a year later in a ditch outside the city.
Overby has testified that Wood was pressuring him to have sex without a condom and came at him with a knife.
He told a jury that she somehow ended up in a pool of blood on the floor and he never intended to hurt or kill her.
The Canadian Press
