SASKATOON – A judge has sentenced a Saskatoon boy to 18 months for killing a 12-year-old friend last year while posing with a gun and pretending to be a gangster.
The 15-year-old boy, who was 13 at the time and cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, earlier pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death.
-
![]()
Global News at 5 Saskatoon: March 4 -
![]()
Global News at 5 Saskatoon: Feb. 27 -
![]()
Global News at 5 Saskatoon: Feb. 25 -
![]()
Global News at 5 Saskatoon: Feb. 24 -
![]()
Global News at 5 Saskatoon: Feb. 23 -
![]()
Global News at 5 Saskatoon: Feb. 13 -
![]()
Cougars golf team gearing up for international tourney -
![]()
Saskatchewan steel workers sound off about new tariffs -
![]()
Regina German Club facing threats -
![]()
Cougars land another Manitoba recruit
Judge Lisa Watson ordered the boy to serve one year in open custody and six months under community supervision, followed by 18 months of probation.
- Watchdog report prompts renewed calls for Indigenous people to run Indigenous procurement
- Nova Scotia tech experts say U.S. social media trial could have local ripple effect
- Ontario’s battered housing sector revises its projections down again
- Ontario moves to cancel SkyDome Act to free up downtown land. It’s not yet clear why
Get breaking National news
Court heard three boys had been drinking and passing around a sawed-off rifle in a home in February 2024.
An agreed statement of facts says they were taking photos and videos of themselves pretending to be gangsters.
The document says the victim was shot in the head and that the boy who fired the gun thought it was in safe mode.
More coming.
Comments
Want to discuss? Please read our Commenting Policy first.