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Van Breda defence questions crime scene investigation

Advocate Botha has told the court that officers first at the scene of the crime missed blood stains in and around the family home.

Murder-accused Henri van Breda at the Western Cape High Court. Picture: Monique Mortlock/EWN.

CAPE TOWN The legal team representing triple-murder accused Henri van Breda has pointed out that the first officer to arrive at the crime scene missed blood stains in and around the family home.

Defence advocate Pieter Botha has been cross-examining first responding officer Sergeant Adrian Kleynhans.

Kleynhans has admitted he doesn't have a good memory and that he may have made a few mistakes in his initial statement. One of these includes his description of the then emotional state of the accused.

Botha showed the court zoomed-in pictures taken of the crime scene in which some blood spatter can be seen inside the house and on an outside wall.

Kleynhans has admitted to not noticing those blood stains.

Kleynhans says he noted several observations, including spotting valuables on the ground floor, which led him to believe no one broke in.

The officer has admitted he was wrong to have stated no one could have entered the property after Botha pointed out it is possible to scale the walls.

Botha has argued discrepancies in Kleynhans' statement, including not noticing the blood stains and making assumptions about van Breda's emotional state, all attempted to show a robbery never took place.

(Edited by Masechaba Sefularo)

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Hometown Life 5:26 p.m. ET April 26, 2017

A North Farmington student dusts for prints.(Photo: Submitted)

Student crime scene investigators from five area schools met April 22 at Walled Lake Central High School for the fifth annual CSI: Oakland crime scene competition. This years students worked to solve the Mystery of Dixie Cupp, heinously killed at her own house party. The high school investigators analyzed fingerprints, blood types, blood spatterand forgeries, along with both chemical and biological evidence, to solve Dixies fictitious death. For the fifth straight year, the butler did not do it!

North Farmington High School students document the crime scene.(Photo: Submitted)

CSI: Oakland is an exciting, innovative program designed to stimulate student interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics using the challenges of forensic science. The CSI: Oakland league was created by the Oakland Intermediate School District, in partnership with eight county school districts.

The partnership team from Marian and Walled Lake Northern presents its findings to the judges.(Photo: Submitted)

This program brings the challenge of forensic science to teams of students from Oakland County schools. CSI: Oakland events leverage the popularity of crime scene investigation to create authentic learning experiences for high school students.

Novi High School students process the crime scene.(Photo: Submitted)

The Walled Lake Central team won the Best Forensics Practices Award.(Photo: Submitted)

Benjamin Morin, Oakland Schools consultant and event volunteer, described it as "agreat event showcasing higher thinking and depth of knowledge.

Sierra Wilnus of North Farmington dusts for prints.(Photo: Submitted)

Added Shelly Duk, Walled Lake Central High Schools forensics coach and the host of the event: Im thrilled the competition went so well and that the students had a good time while they were doing 'science' Im looking forward to next years competition already!

Tallon Brehmer uses forensic tools to help solve the case.(Photo: Submitted)

Saturdays event was the leagues fifth staged crime scene. The competing teams took turns processing the crime scene and sharing their findings with the audience and a panel of judges. The schools winning recognition were:

For more details, go tohttps://oakland.k12.mi.us/families-community/school-student-programs/CFEStudentPrograms/Pages/CSI-Oakland.aspx.

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The criminal justice department at Northeastern Junior College staged a mock crime scene Wednesday, involving a drug dealer who was shot and killed while driving a van and end up crashing into the clock tower next to ES French. The passenger of the van was able to get out, but shot dead. With this crime scene students are able to gain real-life experience in crime scene investigations. Students who are currently enrolled in the Crime Scene Investigation course are being tested on their basic understanding in the collection of trace evidence, ballistics, and blood spatter analysis. Students work in teams of five, each of them having specific part when investigating this crime scene. The van was on loan from a junk yard, and staged with fake blood and drugs. In order for students to determine the bullet's trajectory, live rounds were fired into the van prior to its arrival at NJC. (Courtesy Photo)

Students in Northeastern Junior College's Crime Scene Investigation course work to collect fingerprints from a mock crime scene Wednesday. (Courtesy Photo)

The criminal justice department at Northeastern Junior College staged a mock crime scene Wednesday, involving a drug dealer who was shot and killed while driving a van and end up crashing into the clock tower next to ES French. The passenger of the van was able to get out, but shot dead.

With this crime scene students are able to gain real-life experience in crime scene investigations. Students who are currently enrolled in the Crime Scene Investigation course are being tested on their basic understanding in the collection of trace evidence, ballistics, and blood spatter analysis.

Students work in teams of five, each of them having specific part when investigating this crime scene. The van was on loan from a junk yard, and staged with fake blood and drugs. In order for students to determine the bullet's trajectory, live rounds were fired into the van prior to its arrival at NJC.

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By Cedar Atanasio, Aaron Johnson and Brian Lockhart

Photo: Staff / Hearst Connecticut Media

McLevys Green is blocked off by police during an active crime scene investigation on Thursday, April 20, 2017 in downtown Bridgeport.

McLevys Green is blocked off by police during an active crime scene investigation on Thursday, April 20, 2017 in downtown Bridgeport.

Friends and family gather outside of the Rockfield Drive home of Max Antoine, 33, in on Thursday. Antoine, 33, was fatally shot in downtown Bridgeport early Thursday morning.

Friends and family gather outside of the Rockfield Drive home of Max Antoine, 33, in on Thursday. Antoine, 33, was fatally shot in downtown Bridgeport early Thursday morning.

Friends and family gather outside of the Rockfield Drive home of Max Antione, 33, in Stamford, Conn. on Thursday April 20, 2017. Antione, 33, was fatally shot in downtown Bridgeport early Thursday morning.

Friends and family gather outside of the Rockfield Drive home of Max Antione, 33, in Stamford, Conn. on Thursday April 20, 2017. Antione, 33, was fatally shot in downtown Bridgeport early Thursday morning.

Friends and family gather outside of the Rockfield Drive home of Max Antione, 33, in Stamford, Conn. on Thursday April 20, 2017. Antione, 33, was fatally shot in downtown Bridgeport early Thursday morning.

Friends and family gather outside of the Rockfield Drive home of Max Antione, 33, in Stamford, Conn. on Thursday April 20, 2017. Antione, 33, was fatally shot in downtown Bridgeport early Thursday morning.

Friends and family gather outside of the Rockfield Drive home of Max Antione, 33, in Stamford, Conn. on Thursday April 20, 2017. Antione, 33, was fatally shot in downtown Bridgeport early Thursday morning.

Friends and family gather outside of the Rockfield Drive home of Max Antione, 33, in Stamford, Conn. on Thursday April 20, 2017. Antione, 33, was fatally shot in downtown Bridgeport early Thursday morning.

A gofundme page has been started to raise money for the family of Max Antoine, a Stamford man who was killed in Bridgeport, Conn. on Thursday, April 20, 2017.

A gofundme page has been started to raise money for the family of Max Antoine, a Stamford man who was killed in Bridgeport, Conn. on Thursday, April 20, 2017.

. Below: A gofundme page has been started to raise money for Antoines family.

. Below: A gofundme page has been started to raise money for Antoines family.

Stamford man fatally shot in downtown Bridgeport

BRIDGEPORT Neelton Sean Gooden was winding up his workday the same way he had since the grand opening of 4 Corner Billiards downtown six months ago.

He was chatting with his co-owner outside the building on the Bank Street side of McLevy Green about 12:30 a.m. Thursday as they were getting ready to drive home.

Thats when eight to 10 gunshots from across the green abruptly announced the arrival of the citys soon-to-be seventh homicide of the year Max Antoine, 33, of Stamford.

I ducked down, Gooden recalled Thursday afternoon, back at work at the billiards hall. He was across the street coming from the other side of State Street. I heard the shots fired. I saw him running then drop to his knees.

Gooden said he ran over to where Antoine sprawled in the middle of McLevy, gasping for breath, and called 911. It was already too late; shortly after police arrived, Antoine was pronounced dead at the scene.

It appears that somebody either followed him or was waiting for him and ended up shooting him, said police Chief Armando A.J. Perez. They shot him twice.

Police said Antoine had just left a party, although they did not specify the address.

By late morning, the neighborhood around McLevy a short walk from the Margaret E. Morton Government Center and several restaurants and other small businesses along State Street was a maze of yellow police tape.

A half-dozen men in hard hats and safety vests renovating a nearby building gawked as crime scene investigators worked in a drizzling rain, the body still visible during the morning rush hour.

Two electricians walking around the crime tape on the way to their job darkly joked that it reminded them of military tours in Afghanistan.

I grew up here. (Violence is) the reason I moved out of the city, said one, a 32-year-old Ansonia resident who declined to give his name.

Eventually, staff from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner removed Antoines sheet-draped body, wheeling it off on a gurney and into a van.

Little information about Antoine was released by officials Thursday. A Facebook profile for Max Antoine was flooded with condolences and a link to a GoFundMe page established to support his memorial service.

In Stamford, numerous friends and family gathered at his West Side home, but declined to comment.

Stamford Police Capt. Richard Conklin said that department was assisting Bridgeport with the investigation. Bridgeport investigators were escorted to Antoines home in the mid-afternoon.

We are working together and they have some personnel down here and we are assisting on that. I dont want to comment too much further on their ongoing investigation, Conklin said.

Detectives have been interviewing witnesses and reviewing evidence recovered from the area, said Bridgeport Capt. Brian Fitzgerald, who oversees the homicide bureau.

Gooden said he was shocked that violence commonly seen in other parts of Bridgeport had extended downtown, which is seeing a boost of new construction, residents and businesses.

Downtown Bridgeport? Thats the whole reason I opened my business down here because it was supposed to be safe, Gooden said.

Investigators said they have some leads but are looking for more help solving the crime. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 203-576-TIPS (8477).

Staff Writer John Nickerson contributed to this report

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