La Loche shooter to face sentence tomorrow
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Over two years after a then 17-year-old killed four people and injured seven others, the details of his adult life sentence are expected to be decided on Tuesday, May 8.
The convicted shooter, now 20, was only few weeks shy of his eighteenth birthday when he shot Dayne Fontaine, 17, and Drayden Fontaine, 13, in a home, then proceeded to La Loche Community School where he shot nine more people. In addition to the Fontaines, the shooter killed teacher Adam Wood, 35, and teacher’s aide Marie Janvier, 21, at the school.
During the last court date on March 16, Judge Janet McIvor ordered a placement report to be completed by tomorrow’s court date. One of the many options to be considered includes the Regional Psychiatric Centre. During the March date, the judge stressed sentencing should happen as soon as possible.
McIvor delivered her decision about the youth being sentenced as an adult at court in La Loche on Feb. 23, 2018. She said at the time a youth sentence would not be just, given the fact the crimes were “not impulsive act done by an immature person, and the nature and manner of his murders were unnecessarily violent.”
