Zachary Rolfe trial: What the court has heard so far about the shooting of Kumanjayi Walker

The trial of constable Zachary Rolfe has been running for the past two weeks in Darwin and is expected to run for at least another fortnight.

Rolfe is charged with murdering Indigenous man Kumanjayi Walker in the remote community of Yuendumu, about 300km from Alice Springs, in November 2019.

He has pleaded not guilty to murder and alternate charges. Here is what the court has heard during the trial.

The court has heard Rolfe shot Walker three times at a property known as House 511 in Yuendumu at about 7.20pm on 9 November 2019. He had been trying to arrest Walker, a 19-year-old Warlpiri man, in relation to an outstanding warrant.

More evidence about the shooting was revealed when Justice John Burns amended previous suppression orders preventing the publication of body-worn camera footage of the shooting played to the court and of detailed descriptions of that footage.

In his opening address, the prosecutor, Phillip Strickland SC, took the jury through body-worn camera footage of the incident. He said Rolfe and fellow constable Adam Eberl had entered House 511 looking for Walker and found him walking towards them. The officers entered via the only working door to the property, meaning Walker could not escape, Strickland said.

Strickland said Eberl and Walker struggled towards the other side of the room and Rolfe fired his first shot, hitting Walker in the middle of the back, while the 19-year-old was standing about a metre away.