KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The trial of a man charged with killing his pregnant girlfriend has heard that a dog came across the teen's body.
Kyle Kuzyk told B.C. Supreme Court that his dog led him to CJ Fowler's body near a trail at about 1 p.m. on Dec. 5, 2012.
Kuzyk said he thought he was looking at a pile of clothes but quickly realized it was a First Nations girl clad in a tank top with clothes around her.
There was a concrete block on her chest, he told the jury.
Two other people arrived and called 911.
Kuzyk was among several people who testified in the trial of 24-year-old Damien Taylor, who is charged with second-degree murder in Fowler's death.
A pathologist is expected to testify the 16-year-old girl died of asphyxiation.
Court has heard that Fowler was at Royal Inland Hospital in the early hours of Dec. 5 complaining of chest pains from drug use. It was there that an emergency doctor told her and Taylor that she was pregnant.
DNA testing later confirmed Taylor was the father.
Prosecutor Alexandra Janse has said the Crown will show video of the two arguing when they left the hospital and that a witness will testify that she heard the argument.
Fowler last texted her stepfather at about 3 a.m. that morning.
Following her death, Taylor caught the noon bus north toward Terrace and was questioned by police in Prince George, where RCMP put him up in a hotel.
Police searched his room and found socks with Fowler's blood on them, the trial has heard. (Kamloops This Week)
