grant-dallaire was stabbed twice on his left torso and shoulder as he exchanged punches with osman.
“i thought i had broken ribs from a punch until (another friend) told me i was cut, and i felt with my hand and it was dripping with blood,” he testified.
plumb was stabbed as he stepped in and “threw a couple of swings” at osman.
“i thought it was just a couple of punches, i didn’t think anything of it until we got outside,” he recalled monday.
prosecutors told the jury that the backpack plumb wore that day may have saved him from more serious injuries.
the jury was shown photos of plumb’s champion-brand backpack with two large punctures on the left strap corresponding to the stab wounds to his left shoulder blade and collarbone.
plumb had joined the group from his job in demolition, he said, and the backpack was full of his work clothes and tools, including a hammer and a box-cutter.
grant-dallaire and maloney were both carrying folding knives concealed in their pockets when their group of friends confronted osman’s group, but, as the crown told the jury in its opening address, none of the knives or tools “were used, seen or even mentioned” before or during the melee.
according to crown attorneys robin mclachlen and john semenoff, maloney and his friends had gone to the st-laurent mall “to stick up for a friend and co-worker” who had been assaulted by a group of teenagers on an oc transpo bus the previous day.