Unpublished Newswire

A teenager who stabbed a retired kindergarten teacher to death at random as she raked leaves in her yard in an Ontario suburb said he was determined to kill someone that day “to escape his old life” and to assume an alter ego based on a fictional serial killer, court heard. The boy, 14 years old at the time of the murder in Pickering, east of Toronto, told psychiatrists after his arrest that when he was suspended from school for carrying a knife he made up his mind to kill, like the serial killers he was obsessed with, it was revealed in court Wednesday when the teen was sentenced for...