Jury finds teen guilty of second-degree murder in stabbing death of Jannai Dopwell-Bailey
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A teenager accused of killing 16-year-old Jannai Dopwell-Bailey as he left his Montreal school in 2021 has been found guilty of second-degree murder.
A teenager accused of killing 16-year-old Jannai Dopwell-Bailey as he left his Montreal school in 2021 has been found guilty of second-degree murder.
A jury delivered the verdict at the Montreal courthouse Tuesday morning, the Crown prosecutor confirmed.
The young man cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act because he was a minor at the time of the murder.
Dopwell-Bailey was fatally stabbed in broad daylight in the parking lot of the Programme Mile End school in the city’s Cote-des-Neiges neighbourhood on Oct. 18, 2021. He rushed into the school to seek help and later died in hospital.
Reached by CTV News on Tuesday, the victim's mother, Charla Dopwell, said she was pleased with the verdict and feels that she got some justice for her son.
"I prayed a lot for justice for my son," she said in an interview. "I prayed to get justice for my son and this is great. I must say God is great," she said, adding that it was a "long, rough road" to get there.
"Going to court listening to the whole thing, listening to all that was said, what happened to my child, listening to the witnesses and everything, it was very, very, very, very, very emotional, it's draining."