SaskatoonThe defence in the Andrew Rosenfeldt murder trial closed its case Thursday with two police officers testifying about getting called to help a young women in a mental health crisis in September 2022. Two officers describe responding to a self-harm call regarding Nykera BrownDan Zakreski · CBC News · Posted: Nov 06, 2025 2:27 PM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 2 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Andrew Rosenfeldt’s booking photo from his arrest in Saskatoon on Nov. 15, 2022. (Court of King’s Bench)The defence in the Andrew Rosenfeldt murder trial closed its case Thursday with two police officers testifying about getting called to help a young women in a mental health crisis in September 2022.That woman was 20-year-old Nykera Brown. She had first called police around 8 p.m. on Sept. 8 asking for help because of suicidal thoughts. An officer drove her to Royal University Hospital.Two hours later, other officers were called to the University Bridge and rescued Brown, who was standing on the railing, court heard. Brown died of a single gunshot wound to the head in the couple’s Avenue P South apartment on Nov. 15, 2022. Rosenfeldt, now 28, is on trial at Court of King’s Bench before Justice Heather Macmillan-Brown, charged with second-degree murder.The defence is suggesting that she killed herself.Nykera Brown died of a single gunshot wound to the head in a Saskatoon apartment on Nov. 15, 2022. (Nykera Brown/Facebook)Const. David Clarke testified that he was sent to 124 Avenue P South around 8 p.m. on Sept. 8 “for a suicide in progress.” He arrived to find Brown sitting on the front step, he said.They spoke and Clarke said she indicated “she had multiple options to consider suicide that day.” She added that she had stopped taking her prescribed medications “and was having violent and suicidal ideations,” Clarke said.He drove her to Royal University Hospital, where she was admitted.Const. Cameron Graves testified that he was sent to the University Bridge around 10 p.m. that night after a report of a woman standing on the concrete railing, holding onto a light standard.That woman was Nykera Brown, he said.Multiple officers arrived and approached her from different directions. At one point, while speaking with an officer, she let go of the light standard and crouched down. Graves said he was able to pull her off the railing.She was arrested under a mental health warrant.Defence lawyer Chris Murphy did not call Rosenfeldt to testify.Murphy and Crown prosecutor Elizabeth Addabor are scheduled to make closing arguments Nov. 14.ABOUT THE AUTHORDan Zakreski is a reporter in Saskatoon.
Defence closes case in Andrew Rosenfeldt murder trial with Saskatoon police testimony
