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A street preacher now on trial for murder summoned police to his apartment by heaving the body of his victim halfway out the window, court heard Tuesday.

The man then stood on the window ledge and ranted about snipers for the Hells Angels hiding in nearby bushes, said the police constable who talked him down that night and convinced him to go back inside to be arrested.

Eugene Michael Falle, 35, is on trial for second-degree murder in the death of 18-year-old Shane Chalifoux, whose upper body could be seen slumped out a downtown rooming house window in photographs taken on the evening of Oct. 1, 2006.

Both sides admit Falle killed Chalifoux — Falle told police he stabbed him “75 to 100 times” with a five-centimetre blade after Chalifoux attacked him in his apartment. The jury will be asked to decide if Falle acted in self-defence.

Falle’s street name is Preacher. He lived for at least six months on the third floor of a rundown rooming house at 95th Street and 102A Avenue, the jury heard from his videotaped interview with police several hours after the killing.

Falle told Det. Patrick McCormack that Chalifoux had tried to kill him before. The day before the killing, Chalifoux attacked Falle with a knife as Falle was praying with Chalifoux’s girlfriend, exorcising her demons and trying to calm her down after she’d found out her mother had died, he said.

As Chalifoux put a knife to his throat, Falle grabbed his arm, wrestled him to the ground and escaped with a nick on the neck, he said. But Chalifoux kept talking about coming back to finish the job.

On Oct. 1, Falle was cooking supper when Chalifoux and two friends crept along the ledge outside his window. Falle saw Chalifoux on the ledge and attacked, but Chalifoux managed to muscle his way into the room, he said.

Falle kept fighting, stabbing him with a five-centimetre kitchen knife “75 to 100 times,” he estimated. Chalifoux was armed with a six-inch black blade with a red bandanna around the hilt, a gang sign, he said.

As they fought, Chalifoux lost his knife, but Falle kept stabbing him.

McCormack asked what Chalifoux said while Falle was stabbing him. “He asked me to stop stabbing him, said he had kids,” Falle replied.

Chalifoux tried to escape through the apartment door, but Falle kept it locked.

“I couldn’t let him go because if I let him walk out that door … his friends would be … right behind him,” he said.

“So he wasn’t getting out of there alive?” McCormack asked.

“Correct,” Falle replied. “l let him go yesterday. I realized that, hey, man, that’s a big … boy that I don’t want coming back the … third time.”

Autopsy results show Chalifoux died from blood loss from 39 stab wounds, the Crown prosecutor told court Monday.

Chalifoux’s sister, mother and the grandmother of his child sat in the courtroom Tuesday, watching the proceedings. Halfway through the morning, Falle’s father also walked in.

Falle sat quietly throughout, wearing a neat grey golf shirt and wire-rimmed glasses.

His purpose in that rooming house was to counsel drug addicts, pray for them and help them get their lives back together, he told McCormack during the interview. A lot of the addicts were once lonely “rig pigs” with too much money who got trapped on crack, he said. Falle said he occasionally did crack in his apartment in order to know what the others were going through.

“You try to make a difference,” he said. “Each person I’ve reached out and touched, that’s my job.”

“You have your faith,” McCormack replied as he finished the interview, “hold on to that, OK?”

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