The man who was charged in the July 2016 deaths of Dylan Laboucan and Cory Grey was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 13 years.
Devin Boyce Gladue was sentenced on Monday in a Peace River, Alta. court after pleading guilty to two counts of second-degree murder.
Gladue also received a lifetime ban from owning a firearm and a $200 surcharge.
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When Laboucan, 17, and Grey, 19, were found dead, it shook the whole community.
The young couple disappeared on July 23, 2016. The community combed the area searching for them. Laboucan’s body was found on July 27 and Grey’s body was discovered the next day.
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“My boy was taken from me,” Laboucan’s mother, Becky Thunder, said at the time. “Dylan and Cory were such good kids… This is just shocking to us.”
Autopsies later confirmed both were shot. Relatives said the pair had bright futures ahead of them. They had just finished high school and had been accepted to college in Slave Lake. They were getting ready to move there together.
“They were making plans,” said Whitefish Lake First Nation Chief Robert Grey, who is also Cory’s uncle. “That’s the hardest part.”
In April, police arrested Gladue. The Whitefish Lake First Nation resident, who was 19 at the time, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder.
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