CANTON -- The murder trial of Christopher Hebert reumes this morning with testimony from a village police officer who says Hebert rammed with his vehicle days after his alleged victim's death.

Hebert is being tried in St. Lawrence County Court for second-degree murder in the death of Lacey Yekel, who died at age 25 around June 7, 2014. Prosecutors say Hebert severely beat her and then choked her. Yekel's skeletal remains were recovered in woods near the Massena Industrial Park on Aug. 29, 2014.

Mark Englert, a retired Massena Police Department sergeant, will take the witness stand this morning. He was driving a patrol car days after Yekel's death, on June 12, 2014, when he tried to pull over Hebert on Spruce Street for a traffic violation. Hebert, who was on post-release supervision from state prison and was wanted by state parole officers, rammed the police cruiser. He tried to drive away, but his 2013 Ford pickup broke down after a short distance and he fled on foot, police said at the time.

He went to the residence of Gerald Dissottle, who was also arrested and charged with hiding Hebert.

Dissottle was one of the last people to see Yekel alive. He testified on March 14 that he got a frantic phone call around the time Yekel died and could hear her yelling.

"I heard some yelling and I kept saying 'hello' and nobody answered me,” Dissottle testified last Thursday. "I heard Lacey say 'you're crazy, what's wrong with you, stop.'"

More about Dissottle's testmony is here.