Misha Pavelick’s ex-girlfriend describes holding his hand after he was hurt at grad party

Misha Pavelick’s ex-girlfriend says the “tension was kind of high” when she brought her new boyfriend to the grad party where Pavelick ended up stabbed to death.

The ex-girlfriend testified Tuesday at the trial for the man who is accused of second-degree murder in Pavelick’s death on May 21, 2006, at a campground near Regina Beach, about 45 kilometres northwest of Regina.

The 36-year-old accused’s case is being heard by a jury at Regina Court of King’s Bench. Neither the accused nor the ex-girlfriend can be identified under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act because they were younger than 18 at the time.

The ex-girlfriend said Pavelick had previously made comments about wanting to fight her new boyfriend, Andrew Perkins. She said the group she arrived with decided to leave, but were stopped by Pavelick on their way out. 

She said Pavelick argued with her and then smashed a bottle over Perkins's head and the two males started fighting. 

She managed to get away from the fighting, but said that at one point she looked back to see Pavelick on the ground covering his head as a group of people, which included the accused, kicked him.

Defence lawyer Adam Hitchcock challenged whether the ex-girlfriend actually saw the accused kicking Pavelick, but she said she was sure he was.

She said she later saw Pavelick get up and start stumbling further away from the fire. She said nobody knew Pavelick had been stabbed at that point, but they knew he was really hurt. 

“I was holding onto his hand, and his eyes were watering and he told me he couldn’t breathe,” she said.

She said she called Pavelick’s dad to let him know what had happened, and that she waited with Pavelick until the RCMP arrived and he was taken to the hospital. It wasn’t until after that, that she learned he had died.

The trial, which is in its second week, is scheduled to continue Wednesday.