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In the months leading up to his death, Zig Zag Crew gangster Aaron Hannibal was fighting constantly with the man accused of killing him, jurors were told yesterday.
Hannibal was found face down in a pool of blood outside an Elmwood 7-Eleven, the evening of June 2, 2005. He had been stabbed 19 times, three times in the heart.
Daniel Benjamin Kachkan, 31, is on trial charged with second-degree murder.
Michelle Cockerill, Hannibal's common-law wife, testified yesterday she heard Hannibal arguing on the phone several times with Kachkan, who she only knew as "Banger."
"He would talk about Banger in particular," she said. "He would be angry. They fought a lot."
Justice Colleen Suche cautioned jurors to treat Cockerill's hearsay evidence "with special care."
Cockerill was not allowed to say what she believed Hannibal and Kachkan were arguing about, only about Hannibal's demeanour during and following the phone calls.
'ANGRY, FRUSTRATED'
"He would be angry, frustrated. He would pace. He wasn't happy, he was upset," she said.
Cockerill said she didn't tell police of the conversations until June 30, after Kachkan had been arrested. "I was scared, you don't talk about things in that world," she said.
Defence lawyer Tim Killeen suggested Cockerill knew Hannibal was having problems with several other people, not just Kachkan.
"You didn't tell police about these people because they weren't charged with murdering Aaron Hannibal," he said.
Earlier in the trial, jurors heard police found Hannibal's cellphone on his body and traced the last two phone calls to a number linked to Kachkan.
Yesterday, another witness, Travis Britsky, testified he was driving with Hannibal when Hannibal received a cellphone call from "Banger" and arranged a meeting behind an Elmwood 7-Eleven.
"He said to me 'Usually I have a vest when I deal with this s---,' " Britsky said.
As Hannibal left the car "he said 'I never lose,' " Britsky said. " And that was the last I ever saw him."