Halifax man sentenced in 2022 shooting death outside Gottingen Street nightclub
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Treyvhon Bradshaw was gunned down outside The Den nightclub on March 18, 2022 after getting into an altercation with the defendent, Makayle Skinner.
A Halifax man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for the 2022 shooting death of a 25-year-old man outside a Gottingen Street nightclub.
Makayle Skinner was initially charged with first-degree murder in the death of Trayvhon Bradshaw, but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter last fall.
Bradshaw was gunned down outside The Den nightclub on March 18, 2022, after getting into an altercation with Skinner.
According to an agreed statement of facts, the fight escalated when Bradshaw left the club to retrieve something from his car.
“And then he came back across the street in a crouched manner holding something to his right side, and so when Mr. Skinner was able to get into a position where he saw the handgun, that’s when he fired on him,” said Skinner’s lawyer, Nathan Gorham.
“What he did was in response to a threat, but there would have been other ways to get out of the situation, so he didn’t have a lawful claim of self-defence that would exonerate him.”
Bradshaw later died in hospital.
Skinner was arrested in June 2022 and charged with first-degree murder, but he eventually pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter and was released on bail.
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