Woman who claims to have been in the house during a mass shooting on Langside Street took the stand on Tuesday

“What did you guys make me do?” Is what Xena Hall claims Jamie Felix shouted after he allegedly shot five people in a rooming house on Langside Street in November of 2023.

Felix has pleaded not guilty to five counts of second-degree murder as day 6 of his trial continued Tuesday.

Hall took the stand, claiming she was in the house during the night of the shooting. At the time, she was the girlfriend of Felix’s late father, Randolph Fagnan, also known as ‘Chummy’.

The 28-year-old claimed she dated Fagnan for two months prior to the shooting. Hall described the house on Langside Street as “a drug dealer’s house,” and that crack was sold out of it.

Hall admitted to the courts that she was high on crack during the night of the shooting.

Hall, who is currently pregnant, alleged in her testimony to the crown that Felix’s half-brother, Kyle Houle, had a gun. But in her previous statement to the police, she said that Jamie was showing the gun off before the shooting.

She then alleges that Felix and his father, Fagnan, went for a walk and that when they returned, Jamie Felix opened fire.

Hall said, “It all happened so fast.” She explained that Fagnan pulled her into the washroom and the two hid until the shooting stopped.

Hall then claimed that she, Fagnan, and his daughter Savanah Fagnan, fled the scene. Hall changed her testimonies multiple times, which would often contradict her statement given to police, at times she was uncooperative and refused to answer questions from both the crown and the defence.

When cross-examined by Felix’s defence lawyer, Theodore Mariash. Mariash questioned the legitimacy of Hall’s testimony and cited the impairment of her memory due to drug use the night of the shooting.

He then accused Hall of being complicit in the murders and suggested that there was a plan to murder and rob the inhabitants of 143 Langside and that Hall was a part of it.

After a heated back-and-forth between Hall and Mariash, jurors were excused for the day, then Justice Alain Huberdeau called off the rest of Hall’s testimony for the day.

The trial will continue on Wednesday, and Hall will take the stand again to finish her testimony.