SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - Const. Christopher Worden's voice played over speakers in NWT Supreme Court Friday, giving some insight into the hours leading to the Hay River RCMP officer's tragic death.

The court heard 11 dispatch calls between Worden and dispatch officers and between dispatch officers and the public from about 4 a.m. - 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 6, the day of Worden's death.

The calls shed some light on how Worden came to cross paths with Emrah Bulatci, the 25-year-old Edmonton man charged in his shooting death.

Worden was off-duty, but on-call when at 5:03 a.m. dispatch called to alert him to a possible suicidal man on Woodland Drive. Worden told dispatch he would suit up and check it out.

Dispatch then received several calls in regards to another incident. Worden said he would attend, but hadn't yet located the man.

He planned to first stop at a party the man had reportedly left earlier - the same party witnesses said Bulatci attended.

That was the last either of the two dispatch officers heard from Worden.

Crown prosecutor John Cliffe told court during his opening argument Worden met Bulatci as he was approaching the party house and as Bulatci was leaving in a taxi.

With out specifying, Cliffe said Worden had "brief dealings" with Bulatci which caused Bulatci to run and a foot pursuit to ensue.

The two ran to the back of a housing unit to a treed area along a fenceline close to Woodland, Cliffe said.

There, Bulatci is accused of shooting Worden four times. Worden's body was found with his gun in the holster.