Man who shot 2 Calgary fathers in 24 hours pleads guilty to manslaughter
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Taylor Roan was high on crystal meth and fentanyl when he used the same shotgun to fatally wound two Calgary fathers over a 24-hour period, a judge heard Tuesday.
The mood in Calgary's high-security courtroom was tense as Roan, 27, pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter in the 2022 deaths of Trevor Dendy, 57, and Nathan Ward, 41.
Family members of both victims filled the gallery. There were tears and angry eruptions throughout the half-day hearing.
Roan was originally charged with first-degree murder in Ward's death, but the Crown's key witness disappeared so the lawyers negotiated a plea to the lesser offence of manslaughter.
Details of Roan's crimes come from an agreed statement of facts (ASF) read aloud by prosecutor Suzanne Goldman.
Court heard that on the morning of November 11, 2022, Trevor Dendy and his daughter Ashley Dendy left their home.
The plan was for Ashley to drive her dad to work in her Jeep.
When they walked out of their Castleridge home, Roan emerged from a hedge with a sawed-off shotgun pointed at Ashley.
The father and daughter handed over the keys and their cell phones.
Trevor ended up in a struggle with Roan over the firearm.
"The shotgun discharged and Trevor dropped to the ground," reads the ASF.
Dendy had been shot in the back of his head.
"I now have to live with what it feels like to look down the barrel of a gun," said Ashley Dendy in a victim impact statement read aloud in court.
"I know what it feels like to be covered up to my elbows in my dad's blood."
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