A jury has begun hearing evidence in a trial at the Montreal courthouse where a man is charged with second-degree murder of a victim who was beaten and stabbed to death for his phone in Chinatown.

Prosecutor Annabelle Sheppard told the jury in the trial of Marckinson Cherise, 44, that the first images they will see, recorded by a surveillance camera positioned on de la Gauchetière St. W., are of the victim, 34-year-old Mohamed Azzedine Riahi, falling to the ground with a knife stuck in his chest.

“In the seconds that follow (in the video), the victim is caught again by his aggressors. The accused, Marckinson Cherise, approaches the victim along with his accomplice, Dwayne Joseph.”

Sheppard said Joseph had a knife in his right hand at this point and he removed the knife stuck in the vict

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