Teen who stabbed student to death in Hamilton, Ont. to make court apperance today
CTV
A sentencing date is expected to be set today for a 16-year-old boy who stabbed another teenager to death outside a Hamilton high school in 2019.
The accused, who cannot be identified under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last month in the stabbing death of 15-year-old Devan Selvey, who was killed outside Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School in Hamilton on Oct. 7, 2019.
According to an agreed statement of facts submitted to the court, the victim and accused, who was 14 at the time, attended the same high school but did not know each other prior to the deadly attack, which was largely captured on CCTV cameras on or near school grounds.
According to the court document, the dispute initially began around lunchtime outside the high school when Selvey spotted one of the people he believed to be responsible for the theft of his bike one month earlier.
On the day of the stabbing, the document says, Selvey thought he saw one of the perpetrators hanging out in a group in the smoking area of a nearby arena.
