Pair sentenced for murder of Saskatoon man 'at the wrong place, at the wrong time'
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Two gang members are heading to prison for a decade and a half after pleading guilty to killing a Saskatoon man they targeted just because of the colour of his clothes.
Arizona Lagimodiere and Trystin Spyglass were sentenced Tuesday in Saskatoon Court of King's Bench for their roles in the killing of Tristen Roy.
Roy, a 21-year-old father of two, was shot as he stood on a front lawn on July 29, 2020.
Roy's grandmother Susan Eva spoke in court about how painful it has been to watch Roy's two little boys growing up without their father.
"I worry so much about my family and loved ones," she said. "The fact that Tristan was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and was a target because of the colour of a shirt has made me very afraid of what might happen to others that I love."
He died that night because Lagimodiere and Spyglass, members of the West Side Outlaws street gang, were high on drugs, roaming the city in a car, Crown prosecutor Carla Dewar said in court. The two men were seeking anyone from the Terror Squad street gang to exact revenge for the killing of their fellow gang member Dartagnan Whitehead earlier that month.
Lagimodiere and Spyglass spotted Roy on the lawn at 320 Avenue U South. Lagimodiere believed it was a Terror Squad house, but it was not. Roy was wearing black, a Terror Squad colour.
Lagimodiere fired 10 shots from the car. One hit Roy in the head, killing him.
It was an "unprovoked, senseless act of violence," Dewar said.
"Mr. Roy had done nothing to anyone involved in this case," she said in court. "He had done nothing to deserve any violence toward him. He was taken from his family and friends for absolutely no reason."
Both Lagimodiere, 26, and Spyglass, 25, were initially charged with first-degree murder.
Lagimodiere, who was driving the car and fired the fatal shot, pleaded guilty in December to second-degree murder. Spyglass, a passenger in the car, pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
A third person in the car, a woman, gave a statement to police and had agreed to testify at trial. She was placed in the witness protection program, Dewar said.
The Crown and defence lawyers made a joint submission on sentencing to Justice Brian Scherman, which he accepted.
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