SASKATOON – Neil Yakimchuk has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Isho Hana on a Saskatoon street in April 2004.
The jury returned the guilty verdict Thursday morning.
A first-degree murder conviction carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.
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Hana was gunned down on Preston Avenue which, according to police, was the result of a drug turf war.
Three other men have been charged and are scheduled to go on trial in September.
Testimony and evidence heard at Yakimchuk’s trial is under a publication ban to keep those trials from being tainted.
Yakimchuk was found guilty earlier this year in Calgary of first-degree murder in the death of his future brother-in-law Juan Dequina.
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