YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A man charged with killing a Canadian police officer spent the days before the shooting hanging out and doing drugs, witnesses said Thursday.
Emrah Bulatci is charged with the first-degree murder of Constable Christopher Worden of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Bulatci attempted to plead guilty to manslaughter as his trial opened Wednesday, but prosecutors refused to accept the plea, the Calgary Herald reported.
Worden, 30, a new father at the time of his death, was shot in Hay River, a small town in the Northwest Territories, Oct. 6, 2007. He was responding to a report of a suicidal man and pursued Bulatci on foot after going to a house where people were using drugs, investigators said.
Two witnesses said Thursday they saw Bulatci with a gun during the week he spent in Hay River on a drug-dealing trip. Witnesses said he moved from house to house, playing video games, drinking and cooking crack cocaine.
