In 2022, a high school student was swarmed, beaten and stabbed to death in Edmonton. Two years later, one of the seven young people accused in his death is standing trial.
Because the victim and his attackers were all minors at the time, the Youth Criminal Justice Act prevents journalists from naming them, their families, or the place where the fatal attack occurred.
As witness testimony continued Friday, the judge had to temporarily stop the proceedings, because of cries ringing out through the courtroom.
The victim’s mother was inconsolable and needed a break to compose herself before court was able to continue.
The cousins of the teen who was killed say the mother hasn’t been the same since he died.
“She’s a shell of what she used to be. Her vibrancy, her zest for life, her reason for living is gone,” one said.
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They feel the witnesses, including a young woman who was in …