Officers tracking down a car seen outside the Pasowisty home about 10 days before the father and son were killed came upon a trail of blood in front of a Marcus Street home, court heard today.
“We immediately saw red droplets of what appeared to be blood” on the driveway, Barrie police Sgt. Glen Furlong testified Thursday. “There was more concentrated droplets near the garbage area.”
Dyrrin Daley has been standing trial on first- and second-degree murder in the February 2017 deaths of 19-year-old Nickolas Pasowisty and his 51-year-old father, James Pasowisty.
Court heard earlier that after police discovered the bodies in the Pasowistys' William Street apartment they canvassed the Allandale neighbourhood in search of clues.
A neighbour who believed drug transactions was taking place in the men’s apartment had written down the description and licence plate number of a Honda CRV he had seen parked nearby on Jan. 27.
Furlong, along with Aaron Geertsema, who was then a constable, headed to the home where the car was registered under the name of Dyrrin Daley, about five minutes from the apartment where the bodies had been found. Marcus Street is located near Anne Street and Essa Road behind the former Barrie fairgrounds.
The officers found a trail of blood which extended to the front steps as well as the handle and glass of the front door, court heard.
The officers reconvened in their car where they identified two priorities: Ensuring the safety of the injured person and securing the droplets of what was likely blood, realizing it was likely connected to the double-homicide investigation.
Furlong said he called for an ambulance to be nearby and asked that uniformed officers in a cruiser attend. Meanwhile, he added, onlookers and members of the media had gathered around the home.
Tactical officers made their way into the house after there was no response to repeated knocking and found Daley upstairs in a back room.
Furlong said Daley was brought down with a bloody finger bandaged with tissue and a sock.
“I placed Mr. Daley under arrest for murder,” Furlong told the court, adding he then took Daley to the waiting ambulance where paramedics treated his finger.
After Daley was booked at the police station, Furlong took him to Barrie’s Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH).
An hours-long audio recording of the trip to hospital and what occurred there was played to the court in which Daley complains of pain to his leg and back and where a doctor tends to his finger, which he believes could have a severed tendon.
Daley indicates he hurt himself possibly hitting something while falling to the ground and is sent for chest X-rays.
While there isn’t much dialogue, Daley’s comments are largely inaudible.
At one point, the doctor stitching and splinting his finger makes a passing comment about the cut and Daley makes an indistinguishable comment. The doctor then replies: “They got you with your own knife?”
Daley is later taken for a CAT scan and the doctor says: “You took a few whacks.”
The trial resumes Friday with the cross-examination of the officer.
