SaskatchewanBefore Misha Pavelick died at a campground near Regina Beach, he was in a heated conversation with his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. Then a brawl erupted, said a witness at the murder trial for the man accused in Pavelick’s death.Misha Pavelick was arguing with ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend, court hearsAliyah Marko-Omene · CBC News · Posted: Oct 22, 2025 6:42 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour agoMisha Pavelick, 19, was stabbed to death at a party on May 21, 2006, near Regina Beach. (Submitted by Saskatchewan RCMP)The chaos that unfolded at a Saskatchewan campground just before the stabbing death of 19-year-old Misha Pavelick in May 2006 started out small, a jury heard Wednesday in Regina Court of King’s Bench.Brittany Brock, formerly known as Brittany Stewart, said she drove some people from an uninvited group to the graduation party at the Kinookimaw campground near Regina Beach, about 45 kilometres northwest of Regina, at her boyfriend’s request.She overheard two of the guys, Kyle Edwards and his roommate Dustin Scudder, talking about bringing knives that night, Brock testified.“They always carried knives on them,” she said.Two people were stabbed later that night: Derek Enns, who survived, and Pavelick, who died at the scene. Another partygoer, Scott Nelson, later pleaded guilty to aggravated assault against Enns. Scudder testified Tuesday that he brought the knife that was used to stab Enns.Almost 20 years later, a 36-year-old man is accused of second-degree murder in connection with Pavelick’s death. His identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act because he was 17 at the time.Brock said she didn’t personally know the accused, but had heard of him, and the group in her car waited at a Regina Beach gas station for him to arrive in his car with a handful of people she didn’t recognize before they proceeded to the campground around 10 p.m. CST.As she walked down the long dirt road into the campground, she overheard bickering between Pavelick, his ex-girlfriend Nicole Brown and her boyfriend, Andrew Perkins, but she wasn’t close enough to hear what they were arguing about, she testified. Brock recalled seeing Pavelick walk away in the middle of the argument to grab a beer bottle before coming back and hitting Perkins on the head with it. Perkins then walked over to a group of people including Edwards, Scudder and the accused, and was visibly upset, she said. “It looked like he was going to cry.”Perkins and the accused then approached Pavelick near the bonfire and “everything went off,” she said, describing the outbreak of a brawl. “I [saw] people running with plywood after Misha,” Brock testified. Minutes later, she heard that someone had been stabbed and saw Pavelick walking away from the bonfire by himself, she said. “I didn’t know anything had happened, but I saw blood on his stomach.”That’s when she saw Scudder, Edwards and the accused run off, she said. She never saw the knives that belonged to Edwards or Scudder at any other point than when she first picked them up, she told court. The chaperoneJames McIntyre testified that he was also near the campfire when the brawl started. He told court on Tuesday that he was a chaperone for the grad party. “I was just standing there minding my own business and that’s kind of when everything went haywire,” McIntyre said.He recalled standing near a red car off to the side of the bonfire when he heard a bottle smash. McIntyre said that’s when he saw Pavelick stumble by, holding the side of his abdomen and falling to the ground. He told court two men walked up to Pavelick and started kicking him in the head. “I moved out of the way because it was right in front of me,” McIntyre said. He ran to hide in the bushes as he saw Pavelick face-down on the ground with his arms around his head to lessen the blow of each kick, he told court. That’s when he saw another altercation happening on the other side of the fire, between Enns and Nelson, he testified. McIntyre said he came out of the bushes minutes later to find Pavelick on the ground further away from the fire, with people applying pressure to his side.Defence lawyer Andrew Hitchcock challenged McIntyre’s recollection of the timeline, noting that he said he drank up to six beers that night.McIntyre insisted he was not intoxicated. The trial, overseen by Justice Catherine Dawson, is expected to continue Thursday with testimony from more partygoers. ABOUT THE AUTHORAliyah Marko-Omene is a reporter for CBC Saskatchewan. She has previously worked for CBC and Toronto Star in Toronto. You can reach her at aliyah.marko@cbc.ca.
Bickering turned to brawling before killing at campground near Regina Beach, witness says
