Alleged confession heard in testimony at Winnipeg mass shooting trial

“I killed people.” That’s the confession Felix gave to his former girlfriend, she alleged to the court.

She went on to claim he “immediately melted into my arms” and that he was “crying and shaking.”

The two dated for over three years and resided together while attending Red River College. Felix’s ex-girlfriend told the courts, “We did everything together”.

A former girlfriend of a Winnipeg man accused of killing five people says he was prone to seizures that knocked him unconscious with prolonged convulsions.

The jury trial for Jamie Felix began its second week with emotional testimony from the woman about their three-year relationship before his arrest.

Felix has pleaded not guilty to five counts of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths at a rooming house in November 2023.

The woman, who can’t be identified due to a publication ban, says Felix was a loving partner but struggled with periods of drug and alcohol addiction following the death of his twin brother.

Court previously heard that Felix was on anti-seizure medication and was advised by doctors not to mix it with drugs or alcohol.

Felix’s ex-girlfriend spoke about the times that he would relapse, they would separate, and she wouldn’t hear from him for a couple of days.

The woman says she witnessed Felix have multiple seizures and that he would collapse, sometimes turn blue, and become disoriented.

She said it would take him a while to become alert again.

She spoke in court on Monday about the events of the night of the shooting. She alleged Felix told her he was “uncomfortable and scared” and that something was off with Felix.

She claims that Felix would reveal bits and pieces of what happened in the days after the shooting. At one point, she told the court that he told her that he fired the gun and that “everything went blurry”.

Crown prosecutors have argued that the accused was using crack and drinking alcohol in the days before the mass shooting.

Police were called to a unit in the home after reports of a stabbing, but when they arrived found five people with gunshot wounds.

Two victims were pronounced dead at the scene, and two others died in hospital. The fifth, who had been in hospital since the shooting, died last year.

The victims were identified as: Crystal Beardy, 34; her sister Stephanie Beardy, 33; Melelek Lesikel, 29; Dylan Lavallee, 41; and Shawn Marko, 56.


His ex-girlfriend said she saw Felix every day from November 26th until he was arrested on December 1st. She told the courts that she wanted to keep him close until he turned himself in.

-With files from the Canadian Press