Unpublished Newswire

A Manitoba judge has sentenced a teenager to life in prison for killing three vulnerable, Indigenous adults on the streets of Winnipeg in a series of unprovoked attacks, after determining that the maximum youth sentence would not be enough to hold him accountable for his crimes.Court of King’s Bench Justice Gerald Chartier ruled on Wednesday that the teenager, who was 15 when he and another youth went on a violent rampage in 2022, “had the moral capacity of an adult at the time of the offences.” The judge found the teen’s actions warranted a rare adult life sentence.

As a child, Bryce Desrochers dreamt of playing his beloved baseball without additional barriers. Born into a sports-loving family and dressed in Blue Jays threads from a young age, he was part of a recreational league in an Ottawa suburb. But navigating traditional dirt baseball diamonds was difficult in a wheelchair. Bryce, now 23, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at six months old.