Officers describe frantic scene when body of young mother was discovered

Police described a frantic sight when they arrived at the scene where a woman was found stabbed to death. CTV London’s Nick Paparella reports.

Srg. Jamie Doxtater, a member of the Oneida Police Service testified that he was called out to 123 Jubilee Rd. at Chippewas of the Thames First Nation in the early morning hours of July 19, 2022.

He testified that as he drove up the driveway, three males were outside and he recognized one of them as Mathew Riley and said, “He was pacing back and forth, crying really loudly. He was really upset.”

The officer said two others, Gilbert Kechego and Robert John, were also there and trying to help by doing chest compressions on the body of 27-year-old Shaniqua Henry, whose body was partly in a puddle.

He said, “We moved her so we could get on a flat surface so we could do better compressions.”

Doxtater was told by the three men that they came out of the house once they saw Henry’s body on the driveway. He testified that Kechego called 911, saying, “He (Kechego) was upset, he was very excited on the phone.”

When the officer questioned Kechego about what might have happened to Henry, he testified, “He said, ‘Don’t worry about that it doesn’t matter right now.’”

At first, Doxtater thought Henry had overdosed and they administered Narcan, but then he noticed stab wounds.

The court has heard that after an autopsy, Henry died from a stab wound to the heart.

Investigators were told that Henry had been out with her friend Koree Dockstater, 34, on the night in question. After finding blood droplets on a Black Chevrolet Impala, which was registered to Dockstater, she would be charged with second-degree murder. She has pleaded not guilty.

Later in the day, Ontario Provincial Police Officer Ronnie Klassen testified that he too noticed blood in the car, “I did see a bloody hand smear on the front passenger seat backrest.”

Before he took Dockstater in for questioning, he described her demeanor, “She was quite frightened or nervous and at one point she looked like she was going to start vomiting.”

The trial has now been adjourned until Tuesday.