Hearings scheduled to be held prior to the trial of a man accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed a 16-year-old Kamloops girl have been pushed back a month.
The weeks of March 26 to April 13, 2018, were set aside Monday in B.C. Supreme Court for a hearing to determine what evidence will be allowed at the trial of Jason Gourlay. The trial itself is scheduled for June 2018.
The 42-year-old is facing charges of failing to remain at the scene of an accident and tampering with evidence, as well as unrelated counts of possession of a controlled substance and breach of bail conditions.
Jennifer Gatey was struck and killed alongside Pacific Way on Nov. 4, 2016, while waiting for a bus. The 16-year-old lived with her family in a home less than a block away from the bus stop. She was killed a day before her 17th birthday.
Gatey family photo
The driver of the vehicle that struck her did not stop and drove away. Police soon released video from a home-surveillance system in the area showing what appeared to be a dark-coloured Jeep-style vehicle in the area at about the time Gatey was killed.
During the next two days, Nov. 5 and Nov. 6, 2016, police received a tip and descended on a home in Dufferin, across Highway 1 from Aberdeen. There, police strung yellow tape around the yard and covered the front half of a black Jeep with a tarp as they examined the vehicle. There was what appeared to minor damage to the driver’s side front end of the vehicle.
Police then seized the Jeep and forensic evidence was collected.
Gourley was arrested and charged on March 3 of this year.
(KTW file photo)
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