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Jurors in the Peter Khill murder trial heard a forensic psychiatrist testify Monday that militray training can become someone’s 'automatic' response in a stressful situation.

For the past two weeks, Peter Khill has appeared calm and collected during his murder trial in Hamilton, but on Thursday he took deep breaths and looked exasperated as Crown prosecutors accused him of lying about the night he shot and killed Jon Styres.

Peter Khill, who has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, took the stand on Wednesday and described to the jury his training as a reservist and the night that changed his life and ended Jon Styres's.

A blood stain analyst testified Tuesday that Jon Styres was within a metre-and-a-half of Peter Khill’s truck and was facing in toward the vehicle when Khill shot him twice with a shotgun over six years ago. But he faced tough questions from Khill's defence lawyer, who tried to undermine the expert.

Peter Khill's defence lawyer peppered an expert witness with questions, as she testified on Friday in Khill's second-degree murder trial.

Where were Peter Khill and Jon Styres standing and what position were both men in when Khill fired two fatal shots at Styres in almost pitch-black conditions? A forensic pathologist testified Thursday offering a 'likely scenario' for one of the gunshots.

Moments after hearing a 'bone-chilling' blast from a shotgun and seeing sparks fly in front of her home, Melinda Khill testified Wednesday she called 911 on a February night in 2016. Jurors heard the 16-minute call, which showed what Peter Khill and his now-wife Melinda said after Jon Styres was shot dead that night.

The officer who arrested Peter Khill testified Tuesday at the Hamilton man's murder trial that Khill seemed to offer an explanation about why he used a shotgun to blow a hole into Jon Styres's chest — because Khill was a soldier following his training, and felt he needed to defend himself against the Six Nations of the Grand River man.

The trial of Peter Khill began Monday in Hamilton. Khill is accused of shooting 29-year-old Jonathan Styres dead early in the morning of Feb. 4, 2016.

Lawyers screened potential jurors on Friday for possible racial biases and what, if anything, they already knew about the high-profile Hamilton murder trial of Peter Khill.