‘The system let her down’: Mother of Nykera Brown calls for appeal as judge acquits Andrew Rosenfeldt
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Andrew Rosenfeldt's second-degree murder trial ended Friday in a not-guilty verdict in the 2022 death of Nykera Brown. Brown's mother is calling for an appeal of the decision.
Andrew Rosenfeldt showed little emotion as Saskatchewan Court of King’s Bench Justice Heather McMillan Brown read out her verdict acquitting him of second-degree murder in the gunshot death of his girlfriend Nykera Brown on Nov. 15, 2022.
McMillan Brown said “my decision was not the finding that Nykera took her own life, it is a finding that the Crown did not prove beyond reasonable doubt that Mr. Rosenfeldt did.”
Cathleen Balon, Brown’s mother, stood up and shouted at the judge and Rosenfeldt before leaving the courtroom, which was filled with Brown’s friends and family.
“I kind of figured out what the verdict would be just by what she was talking about, and all I could think about is the system let her down in life, the system let her down in death,” Balon said.
McMillan Brown said her decision came down to three main facts of the case as she could not make a judgement on whether it was more likely Brown or Rosenfeldt pulled the trigger of the gun.
“The only one who could answer that question is Nykera. Tragically, her voice was silenced,” McMillan Brown said.
On the night of Brown’s death, she and Rosenfeldt were with his aunt at their home. Rosenfeldt’s aunt testified hearing them fight throughout the day from her room.
In the minutes before her death, Brown called her brother, Dregan Brown, who testified Brown said she was breaking up with Rosenfeldt.
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