A B.C. Supreme Court Justice found Perry Andrew Charlie guilty of second-degree murder Tuesday in the drug-related shootings deaths of two men and serious wounding of a third nearly three years ago.
Justice Marguerite Church found Charlie pulled the trigger on one of the three shotguns used in a Jan. 25, 2017 roadside hail of gunfire that led to the deaths of David Laurin Franks and Thomas Burt Reed. Bradley William Knight was the sole survivor.
Co-accused Tye Miller and Joshua Steven West have each pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and Aaron Ryan Moore to two counts of criminal negligence causing death.
Charlie, Miller and West will be sentenced at later date.
Church will deliver her decision this afternoon on a joint submission from Crown and defence counsels to sentence Moore to five years. Less credit for time served prior to sentencing, Moore has 282 days remaining if the term is issued.
Responding to a report of gunshots, RCMP found the bodies of Franks and Reed in a compact car at a pullout on Foothills Boulevard near North Nechako Road.
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