'I didn’t mean to kill him,' Brandon Ethier testifies in second-degree murder trial

Brandon Ethier claimed he only meant to threaten Joshua Briere, to “scare him off” during an argument, telling the jury in his second-degree murder trial he then fatally stabbed his roommate by accident.
“I wanted to threaten him. I didn’t mean to kill him,” Ethier said on the witness stand Monday, when he gave his account of the booze- and cocaine-fuelled October 2016 birthday party at the Clyde Avenue apartment he shared with Briere.
Three party guests testified l