A man charged in a fatal swarming attack on a Calgary teenager in 2013 smiled and gave a thumbs up to the victim’s family as a judge brought down a guilty verdict in the case.
Nathan Gervais, 24, was found guilty of killing 18-year-old Lukas Strasser-Hird Tuesday in an attack the judge called “predatory and calculated.”
During the trial, the Crown told the court that two altercations took place the night of the attack. The prosecutor said Gervais left the club to get a knife and then stabbed Strasser-Hird three times with the intent to kill him. “Well I laughed at him, I smiled at him and gave him the thumbs up too because he’s going away for a long time.”
A first-degree murder conviction comes with an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 24.
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