Video of rapper Pat Stay being stabbed shown on Day 3 of murder trial

Blair Rhodes · CBC News

· Posted: May 14, 2025 4:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

There were gasps and quiescent sobs successful a Nova Scotia courtroom Wednesday arsenic jurors and witnesses watched a video showing Dartmouth conflict rapper Pat Stay being stabbed to death.

The video was from a information camera successful a downtown Halifax club from early in the greeting of Sept. 4, 2022.

It was played astatine the second-degree execution proceedings of Adam Drake.

The video shows 2 men lasting toe-to-toe successful the mediate of a crowded bar. One of the men makes a stabbing motion toward the different man, who crumples and past gets punched and stumbles to the floor. He past gets up and walks retired of scope of the camera.

The antheral who falls has been identified arsenic Stay.

As the video played, members of the assemblage shouted astatine Drake. "Piece of s--t," 1 pistillate shouted. "Hope you pain successful hell," different pistillate added.

Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Scott Norton ordered the spectators retired of the courtroom and told sheriffs not to fto 1 of them return. The justice had earlier warned spectators that helium would not tolerate immoderate disruptions successful this trial.

Stay made it retired of the bar, the Yacht Club Social, leaving a way of humor down him. He collapsed connected the thoroughfare outside.

The archetypal elder serviceman to get connected the country that night, Sgt. Perry Astephen, was the archetypal witnesser to attest astatine Drake's trial.

He elaborate the constabulary effect that night, including narrating the information video and different transgression country photos.

Astephen testified helium was unhappy with the mode things went that night, due to the fact that radical kept milling around, including walking crossed the humor trail.

One antheral could beryllium seen connected the information video trying to mop up immoderate of the blood.

Astephen ordered officers to wide the barroom and unafraid the scene. They ended up cordoning disconnected the full metropolis artifact surrounding the bar.

The video of the stabbing besides shows idiosyncratic sucker-punching Stay arsenic helium fell distant from the stabbing.

Astephen said helium instructed 1 of the officers to enactment retired a telephone to apprehend the antheral they judge had thrown the punch.

In his cross-examination, Drake's lawyer, Michael Lacey, questioned Astephen astir the chaos of that night, including however radical kept milling astir wrong the nightclub and ignored orders to wide the area.

Astephen said immoderate of those radical would person had humor connected their apparel and footwear due to the fact that they were walking done the evidence.

The past witnesser to attest Wednesday was 1 of the archetypal to respond to the telephone for help.

Const. Joshua Sutton performed archetypal assistance connected Stay until the ambulance arrived, past rode with him to the hospital.

Sutton said helium remained with Stay until helium was pronounced dormant at around 1:23 a.m.