Taylor Roan, high on drugs, fatally shot two Calgary fathers with a sawed-off shotgun over 24 hours. Roan pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter.
Taylor Roan, 27, pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter in the 2022 deaths of Trevor Dendy, 57, and Nathan Ward, 41. Roan was high on crystal meth and fentanyl when he used the same shotgun to fatally wound the two Calgary fathers over a 24-hour period. Court heard that on the morning of November 11, 2022, Trevor Dendy and his daughter Ashley Dendy left their home. When they walked out of their Castleridge home, Roan emerged from a hedge with a sawed-off shotgun pointed at Ashley.
Trevor ended up in a struggle with Roan over the firearm. Roan and a female accomplice took off. For the next eight months, Trevor 'fought so hard to stay alive,' according to his wife Roxane who also wrote a victim impact statement. Roxane says she spent 'hours and hours on end hoping for a miracle.' Her husband of 32 years was briefly discharged from hospital to a long-term care facility, but began to deteriorate and returned to hospital after two weeks. The Crown originally sought a first-degree murder charge in Ward's death, but the key witness disappeared, leading to a plea agreement for manslaughter
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