Regina man convicted in three murders to receive new trial on two [Video]

Saskatchewan’s highest court has granted Dillon Whitehawk an appeal and a new trial has been ordered for the 2019 deaths of Jordan Denton and Keenan Toto.

In a decision released Wednesday, Justices Kalmakoff, Barrington-Foote and Drennan ordered Whitehawk’s convictions be set aside and that a new trial would be required.

Whitehawk was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder for his role in the drive-by shootings that killed both Denton and Toto. The killings took place in Regina’s North Central neighbourhood around three weeks apart in late 2019.

It was alleged that Whitehawk was a member of Indian Mafia at the time of the killings. Witnesses at trial identified Whitehawk as the shooter in both instances and testified that he shot both victims because he believed they were members of a rival street gang, the Native Syndicate Killers (NSK).

Whitehawk had appealed his conviction on the grounds that he was …