SaskatoonAndrew Rosenfeldt spoke to police hours after Nykera Brown died in his Avenue P apartment. Key moments from the video played in court show how his story evolved.Andrew Rosenfeldt talks about home invasion, possible suicideDan Zakreski · CBC News · Posted: Oct 27, 2025 4:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 27Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesAndrew Rosenfeldt was interviewed by Saskatoon police Sgt. Brock Lynden in the early hours of Nov. 16, 2022, shortly after his girlfriend Nykera Brown died. (Court of King’s Bench)Accused killer Andrew Rosenfeldt agreed to speak with a major crimes detective hours after his girlfriend died of a gunshot wound in his Avenue P South apartment on Nov. 15, 2022.Rosenfeldt, now 28, is on trial for second-degree murder at Saskatoon Court of King’s Bench before Justice Heather MacMillan-Brown.The 73-minute interview with Sgt. Brock Lynden took place at the Saskatoon police station early on Nov. 16, 2022. Rosenfeldt waived his right to have a lawyer present. CBC obtained the interview, entered as a Crown exhibit at his trial.Rosenfeldt’s story evolved during the course of the interview as Lynden quizzed him repeatedly about what happened in the apartment. Lynden appeared skeptical of Rosenfeldt’s story from the start.”You’re the one that can tie this puzzle together,” he said.”Tell me what happened.” Rosenfeldt initially said Brown was killed during a home invasion. He suggested that other gang members living in the same building may have been involved.WATCH | Andrew Rosenfeldt tells police, ‘They shot her and left’:Andrew Rosenfeldt tells police, ‘They shot her and left’Raw excerpt from Andrew Rosenfeldt’s interview with Saskatoon police on Nov. 16, 2022.Lynden asked Rosenfeldt about the sequence involving two of Brown’s gang friends who were in the apartment shortly before the shooting. All four — Brown, Rosenfeldt and the two friends — were in the Terror Squad street gang. The friends’ identities are protected by a publication ban.Rosenfeldt told Lynden that he and Brown had been arguing about her plan to go on a “lick,” or gang mission, to exact vengeance on a man named “HoHo” who owed money.The gun seized from the scene of Nykera Brown’s death on Nov. 15, 2022, is shown in a court exhibit photo. (Saskatoon Court of King’s Bench)At one point, Lynden questioned Rosenfeldt on whether he moved a gun, or saw a gun. Police later recovered a sawed-off rifle hidden in the apartment. He pressed Rosenfeldt on the home invasion narrative.WATCH | Police ask Andrew Rosenfeldt if he saw a gun:Police ask Andrew Rosenfeldt if he saw a gunAndrew Rosenfeldt’s interview with Saskatoon police at 2 a.m. on Nov. 16, 2022, the day after Nykera Brown died.After an hour, Rosenfeldt said Brown may have shot herself. He said that she had a history of self-harm, cutting herself and threatening to jump off a bridge. He insisted that he never wanted to hurt her, only to help her.Lynden asked him directly whether he shot Brown.”No,” he said.”Did she shoot herself,” Lynden asks.”I didn’t see her get shot. I don’t know.”WATCH | Rosenfeldt tells police Nykera Brown may have died by suicide:Andrew Rosenfeldt tells police Nykera Brown may have died by suicideAndrew Rosenfeldt speaks to Saskatoon police in the early hours of Nov. 16, 2022, not long after Nykera Brown died.The trial continues this week.ABOUT THE AUTHORDan Zakreski is a reporter in Saskatoon.
Accused killer’s story evolves as he talks to police hours after Nykera Brown’s death
