Bacon was yelling that he had been shot in the back and was upset by that

Mother of the notorious Bacon brothers took the stand as a Crown witness Monday in the gun trial of youngest son Jamie and middle son Jarrod.She told Surrey Provincial Court Judge Jean Lytwyn that officers responding the the targeted shooting of her son Jamie on April 13, 2007 did in fact treat her family as if they were suspects.“They didn't treat Jamie like a victim at all or Jonathan,” she testified. “When we were leaving the house, I made the boys put them on. I was terrified.”Bacon described the dramatic scene after several shots were fired at the family rental home, wounding Jamie and damaging the posh residence in the 15800-block of 106 Ave.She was awakened by a sound, woke up husband David and then went down the stairs where she could hear thumping coming from the basement where Jamie lived with girlfriend Chalsi Sylvestre.
“I heard Jamie yelling ... I heard his voice going: 'I've been shot. I've been shot.' I phoned 911 and told them,” Bacon testified in a clear voice with her two youngest sons in separate prisoners docks in high-security courtroom 107.“My biggest concern now was Jamie as I saw he was bleeding profusely from his head,” she said. “There was so much blood at the time.”She said Jamie, then just 21, “was breathing heavy, sweating profusely and just kept repeating that he'd been shot.”“I started to take off his top and say let me check, let me check,” she said, explaining she was still on the phone with a 911 operator asking for an ambulance.“I remember Jamie saying to me 'Tell dad not to go outside. Tell dad not to go outside,'” Bacon said. “I think from there everything gets blurred for me after that.”Jamie and Jarrod face 10 gun charges after police found a secret compartment containing four loaded handguns and five magazines in a Suburban the brothers were using. Officers planting a tracking device inside the Suburban, owned at the time by jailed associate Dennis Karbovanec, said they stumbled across the guns by accident.Susan Bacon told the court she knew the vehicle belonged to Karbovanec, who was in jail from Dec. 2006 to the summer of 2007, but was vague about how often it was at her residence.
“I have seen the vehicle,” she said, agreeing that Jamie “sometimes” used it.
“When I am in the house, I can't see who brings the car in.”
She said at the time of the shooting, all three “boys” were living with their parents in Surrey where the family had moved that February from their Abbotsford home where Jon had been shot four months prior.
She would leave the house for work as early as 6:15 a.m. and not return until the evening, Bacon testified.
She did not seem nervous on the stand, even laughing a couple of times during her evidence, which is scheduled to continue Tuesday.Earlier Monday, the court heard that Jamie told police after the shooting that he had purchased 10 military-grade bullet-proof vests for $1,600 U.S. each including the one that saved him that night.And Bacon told two RCMP officers that he had ordered a special bullet-proof truck but it was late arriving due to a CN strike.Bacon's chat with police was recounted by Crown Teresa Mitchell-Banks, who asked Judge Jean Lytwyn to allow the officers to describe their conversations with Bacon, saying body armour is relevant to the gun charges."There has just been a gunfight at the house," Mitchell-Banks argued. Bacon's lawyer Ken Westlake objected, saying the fact his client wore a bullet-proof because the family had been a target of previous shootings - nothing more."This family had been under attack previously by people," Westlake said. "They are not shooting at themselves.Lytwyn agreed that the conversations between police and the purported Red Scorpion leader would not be admitted as evidence at the judge-alone trial.But Mitchell-Banks' description of the conversation provided a glimpse into the world of the youngest Bacon brother.She said Jamie told police he had seen a show on the “military channel” highlighting the heavy-duty “level three” body armour.He ordered his sets from Dave's Surplus in New Westminster. He also got helmets, he told the officers.
Bacon apparently said he would likely have been paralyzed in the assassination attempt that day if he had not been wearing the special body armour.No information came out in court about how Bacon would have paid for the specialty items he ordered, which would have cost in the tens of thousands of dollarsAlso Monday, Const. Byron Donovan described how he was the first RCMP officer who arrived at the Bacon house in the 15800-block of 106 Ave., after 911 calls from several frantic neighbours and Susan Bacon..“I observed the silhouette of a male standing in the driveway of the garage behind a vehicle,” Donovan said. “The male ran into the garage with the door closing behind him.”He said five people were then ordered out of the house - Jamie and Jon, their parents and Sylvestre.
“Mr. (Jamie) Bacon was yelling that he had been shot in the back and was upset by that,” Donovan recalled.
He said he helped Jamie Bacon take off his body armour and told Bacon there was a welt, but that the bullet had not gone through. He said an ambulance was called to take Bacon to hospital, where his injuries were determined to be minor.He described the small cut behind Jamie's right ear as a “scratch.”On cross-examination, Donovan told Westlake that Jamie Bacon was never handcuffed that night nor ever formally detained by police. He also denied that he or other officers at the house had their guns drawn when the Bacon family came out of the house.
The trial continues Tuesday when both parents are expected to testify. Susan was only called to the stand about 3:40 p.m. Monday after waiting the whole day with her husband outside the courtroom. She read a John Grisham novel, while David Bacon read the Vancouver Sun. They tried to duck media cameras when they met Jarrod for lunch at the courthouse cafe.Jarrod is out on bail, but Jamie remains in custody after being charged last April with first-degree murder in the Surrey Six case