Second Degree Murder

• Roommate testifies at trial for couple charged with killing neighbour over BBQ smoke

  Khoa Tran is charged with Second Degree Murder. Quynh (Isabelle) Nguyen, Tran's wife is charged with accessory after the fact and doing an indignity to a body. 

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  May 7
  
• UHN microbiologist killed by roommate remembered as compassionate and kind

  A Toronto man has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 12 years after pleading guilty to the second-degree murder of his former partner, Julia MacIsaac.

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  Apr 24
  
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• Toronto man who killed his mother found guilty of 2nd-degree murder

  A Toronto man who admitted to killing his mother at a park has been found guilty of second-degree murder after a judge rejected his defence that he was not criminally responsible.

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  Apr 17
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• Man faces second-degree murder charge in suspicious death of Toronto woman

  Toronto police have charged a 60-year-old man with second-degree murder in connection with the death of Xian Wei Shao, whose remains were discovered in a north end home last week.

  Crime

  Mar 21
• Judge rejects NCR defence for Toronto man found guilty of stabbing husband in 2021

  A man has been found guilty of second-degree murder nearly five years after fatally stabbing his husband in their Scarborough apartment.

  Crime

  Mar 12
• Jurors must decide on intent as deliberations begin in Desjarlais-Kelly murder trial

  Jurors deliberates whether a fatal shot fired out of self-defence or with the intent to kill during final arguments in Katlim Desjarlais-Kelly's second-degree murder trial.

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  Feb 13
• Closing submissions at trial for Toronto woman accused of murdering friend’s toddler

  Crown prosecutors and defence lawyers painted a very different picture at closing submissions of Shardanae Cousins-Emily's second-degree murder trial.

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  Feb 4
• Trial begins for woman charged with murder of friend’s toddler inside CAS building

  Shardanae Cousins-Emily is charged with second-degree murder in the death of a three-year-old boy. It's alleged she inflicted blunt force trauma on the child's head.

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  Jan 14
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• Damian Hudson testified he fired in self-defence outside Leslieville safe injection site

  The 34-year-old, who is on trial for second-degree murder, has admitted he fired the shot that killed Caroline Huebner-Makurat, but has pleaded not guilty.

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  Dec 2, 2025
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• New Brunswick teen who pleaded guilty to stabbing death sentenced to conditional supervision

  A New Brunswick teenager who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a family member has been released under conditional supervision.

  Crime

  Dec 1, 2025