Steven Pirko admitted killing Christopher Ausman with a hammer in a police video recording watched by jurors on Wednesday, during a second-degree murder trial that began on April 29 in B.C. Supreme Court in Kelowna.

In the video footage from November 2016, after hours of questioning at the Kelowna RCMP detachment, Pirko broke down in tears and told Cpl. Eric Boucher and Cpl. Shane Osa国际传媒橰uairc that he sa国际传媒渉it him with the f**ing hammer.sa国际传媒�

Pirko told the two officers that he and his friend Elrich Dyck were drunk the night of Ausmansa国际传媒檚 death, on Jan. 25, 2014, walking down Highway 33 in Rutland when Ausman ran up to them.

Pirko said Ausman grabbed Dyck and started hitting him repeatedly. In the video, Pirko stood up with the officers to re-enact the incident.

He said he didnsa国际传媒檛 want his friend to get hurt and he had a hammer in his pocket for protection, so he used the hammer to hit Ausman in the leg, to no effect.

Pirko said Dyck then told him to hit Ausman in the head.

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He said Ausman fell backward to the sidewalk, Dyck hit him in the face a couple of times, with his fist, and the two ran off.

He realized Ausman was dead, he said, when he returned to the scene to retrieve an iPod and saw a lot of blood.

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Pirko also told the officers that he had tried to kill himself three times because of what happened.

Later in the video, after a smoke break, Pirko is left alone in the interrogation room.

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The trial continues.

karissa.gall@blackpress.ca
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