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The man, the first of three witnesses called to the stand Wednesday, testified he had been drinking at the Northern Lites motel in the early hours of Dec. 14, 2014 in room 204 on the motel's second floor.

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Wifladt later died of his injuries.

The witness' jarring account of what King said, along with his testimony that he was laying on one of the motel beds when King walked into the room, was challenged by Bran, who presented previous statements the witness made to police following the December slaying.

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Transcripts of the first statement revealed the witness had said he never saw King while awake, and that he was sleeping when the accused entered the room.

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Bran asked the witness to consider the possibility he had adopted the idea from friends or the media SA国际影视传媒� a suggestion the witness denied.

The witness, who admitted to being highly intoxicated that winter morning, recalled King coming into the room to sit down, as a handful of others passed shots of alcohol around. The witness testified he awoke with King sleeping beside him. The witness said he left the motel before King woke up.

In the Crown's deconstruction of the comings and goings at the 50 Street motel in the early morning of Dec.14, the court heard a total of six males had been in the room a various times.

Three of those individuals, all brothers, took the stand Tuesday to recall what little memories they have of the alcohol-fueled night and morning.

A 27-year-old man, who rented room 204 the day before the apartment attack, said he and his brothers travelled to Yellowknife after a day of drinking, ending up at the Northern Lites motel where they continued to consume alcohol.
The man testified he remembered King entering the motel room SA国际影视传媒� but not if he said anything SA国际影视传媒� and that he didn't know him at the time.

The witness was shown video footage taken from a Forrest Drive convenience store around 5:30 a.m., on the same morning. The witness, his brother and a man alleged to be King can be seen on the security camera buying items SA国际影视传媒� but the witness couldn't remember the early morning trip either.

On Tuesday, media reported one of the men who was with King at the convenience store testified he saw blood on King's arm.

In the video, the man alleged to be King is wearing a stripped Adidas jacket SA国际影视传媒� the same one seen in CCTV footage captured in the Northern Lites lobby in the early hours of Dec. 14, when a man identified as King entered the lobby, gripping his hands as if holding a baseball bat while making swinging motions as he spoke to the front desk clerk.
Through witness testimony and video evidence presented throughout the trial, King has been placed at multiple locations throughout Yellowknife on the night of Dec. 13, and the morning of Dec. 14.

King has been placed at Fort Gary apartments, Northern Lites motel and, through testimony from a former resident last week, at Sunridge Place apartments SA国际影视传媒� the scene of the bloody and deadly attack.

While circumstantial evidence has led the Crown's case against King so far, a route Godfrey said they'd go down from the beginning, prosecutors are expected to introduce the first piece of forensic evidence SA国际影视传媒� DNA on handles of swords found in the apartment of survivor Colin Digness SA国际影视传媒� to prove King's guilt.

The trial will enter its third week on Monday.