Sentencing following convictions for two counts of manslaughter and multiple related firearm and bodily harm offences arising from a mass shooting in a crowded downtown food court that killed two men and injured numerous bystanders.
The court treated the offences as highly aggravated public gun violence, emphasizing denunciation, deterrence, and protection of the public, while rejecting self-defence and finding only limited mitigation from the offender's race-and-culture evidence and mental disorder evidence.
The court accepted that prolonged administrative segregation and harsh pre-sentence detention conditions breached ss. 7 and 12 of the Charter and used that finding to decline what would otherwise have been a delayed parole ineligibility order.
Life sentences were imposed on the two manslaughter counts, with concurrent fixed terms on the remaining counts and pre-sentence credit applied to the determinate sentences.
