SaskatchewanMisha Pavelick, 19, died from a stab to the heart, a Regina courtroom heard at the end of the second week of the trial of the 36-year-old man accused in Pavelick’s 2006 death. Pavelick, 19, had a knife wound on the left side of his chest after stabbing at party in 2006, expert saysAliyah Marko-Omene · CBC News · Posted: Oct 31, 2025 3:23 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 2 minutesA photo of Misha Pavelick is displayed near a podium at RCMP headquarters in Regina on June 27, 2023. Pavelick was fatally stabbed during a party at the Kinookimaw campground near Regina Beach on May 21, 2006. (Alexander Quon/CBC)Misha Pavelick died from a stab to the heart, a Regina courtroom heard Friday morning. Crown attorney Adam Breker called Dr. Dino Grammatico, a pathologist who performed the autopsy on Pavlick the day after he was killed in May 2006, to testify Friday at the second-degree murder trial for the man accused of killing the teen.The 36-year-old accused, who has pleaded not guilty to the offence, can’t be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act because he was 17 at the time.Pavelick, 19, was fatally stabbed during a party at the Kinookimaw campground near Regina Beach, about 45 kilometres northwest of Regina, on May 21, 2006.The Crown has previously said that Pavelick was involved in two fights during a “chaotic” night, and that he was stabbed after being attacked by a group of people. Tears were shed in the courtroom Friday as Pavelick’s family heard a two-centimetre knife wound on the left side of his chest injured his heart, resulting in blood loss and his death.Grammatico said Pavelick also had a stab wound near his elbow and three cuts on the crown of his head, along with bruises on the right side of his face, his knuckles and above his right buttock.Breker asked if any of those other injuries contributed to Pavelick’s death. Grammatico said they didn’t, adding that Pavelick lost about two litres of blood after he was stabbed in the chest. He died within minutes, Grammatico told the court.The jury trial, being presided over by Justice Catherine Dawson, is now concluding its second week.It will continue Friday afternoon, when the trial is expected to hear from a DNA expert. The trial is scheduled for a total of four weeks.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.
Misha Pavelick died from stab wound to the heart, murder trial hears
