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One of the people who was at Misha Pavelick’s side when he died took the stand Monday at the trial for the man accused of killing Misha.
The accused was a young person at the time of the killing in May 2006, so he cannot be publicly named. Witnesses who were under 18 at the time are also not being named.
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Testimony from the five witnesses on Monday was similar, as many of the eyewitness accounts have been through the trial, but they also differed on a number of points.
When Mackenzie Hall saw Misha on the ground that night and saw what had happened to him at Kinookimaw campground, he called 911. He said the operator told him to do CPR and give Misha first aid.
“He was conscious, but it was a fight, you know, you’re fighting for life,” said Hall. “It was hard to explain — he was frantic, scared.”
He said by the time first responders arrived, Misha was gone, “there was so much blood.”
Before that, Hall remembered a group of 10 or 20 people showing up to the campground uninvited and unwelcome, ratcheting up tensions. Other witnesses put the number at 10 to 15 and seven to eight people.
Cordelle Carlburg was also at the party and gave evidence Monday morning. He said he knew a number of the guys who were in the uninvited group and remembered telling his friends that some of them were bad news.
When he was on the stand Monday, Shawn Hesse said he remembered Misha coming to him, saying there was going to be a fight between him and Andrew Perkins.
Hesse said he was involved in the scuffle that resulted after Misha hit Perkins over the head with a bottle — he was trying to pull guys off of Misha.
A man who was a young person at the time, O.N., said he turned around and saw two guys rushing at Misha and then hitting him with a bottle. He said he and others broke up the fight and he told Misha he should go to the hospital for a cut on his head, but Misha walked away.
Carlburg also told the court that he got involved with the fight. He said he saw a bunch of people kicking Misha in the head, so he went up and threw a few guys off.
He remembered trying to pick Misha up, his head leaving a smear of blood on Carlburg’s pants, and then getting rushed by a group of guys.
Another young person, H.L., said he helped pick up Misha off the ground from that fight and moved him as far away from the situation as they could.
After that, H.L. said Misha’s ex B.V. came over and was slapping and yelling at Misha. Shortly after that, the other group attacked Misha again — he named Andrew Perkins, Kyle Edwards, and the accused in the group.
He said Misha was leaning or bent over on his knees when that started.
“He couldn’t (say) a sentence, let alone fight back,” said H.L. to court.
Carlburg believed he was knocked unconscious for a short period of time because he remembered opening his eyes on the ground.
O.N. said he watched the accused walk up to Misha and talk to him, then others joined the accused and hit Misha again. At that point, he said Derek Enns got involved and a fight broke away.
Hall, O.N. and Carlburg said there was a point at which their attention went from Misha to Enns and the fight in which Enns would end up being stabbed and seriously hurt. O.N. said he helped get Enns to the hospital.
When Hall’s attention returned to Misha, he said something happened on his right, “all hell hit the fan”, then he saw Misha take 10 steps, stumble and hit the ground.
H.L. said when the second attack stopped he went to check Misha over, that he saw the cut in Misha’s shirt and lifted it up to discover Misha had been stabbed.
When Carlburg went back to Misha, he said he didn’t know he’d been stabbed until Misha started coughing and said he couldn’t breathe.
