Saint John man accused of killing his sons, court documents reveal
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A Saint John man charged in a double homicide is accused of killing his own sons, aged 10 and 17, court documents reveal.
Roman Kamyshnyy is facing two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of the boys last winter.
A Court of King’s Bench justice had imposed an interim publication ban on the names of the victims until the case could be argued.
CBC News challenged the ban, and Justice Kathryn Gregory has now clarified the media can report it’s a case of alleged domestic violence.
Saint John police found the bodies of the boys inside a residence in Millidgeville in the city's north end on Jan. 29, around 7 a.m., while responding to a 911 call.
No information about how they died has been released.
At the scene, officers also found a man they described as having life-threatening injuries. He was taken into custody and transported to hospital.
Police at the time said only that the man was known to the victims and have declined to disclose the nature of his injuries.
Kamyshnyy, 46, is scheduled to face a jury trial in Saint John Court of King’s Bench from June 8 to June 26, 2026.
In her decision, dated Nov. 13, Gregory said she was “satisfied that reference by the media, through publication and/or broadcast, to an alleged domestic violence context to the charge against the accused does not fall within the scope” of the ban.
A ban on the names of the boys, as well as their photos, remains in place “for the duration of the jury trial proceedings and until a further order of this court,” Gregory wrote in a previous decision, dated Oct. 15.
“I am satisfied, on a balance of probabilities, that such a ban prohibiting the publication and/or public disclosure of the identification of the two young, deceased victims, is in the interest of the proper administration of justice.”
They may be referred to only as A.B. and C.D., Gregory said.
The identity of “an important” Crown witness, identified only as Witness A, is also protected by a publication ban to ensure the individual’s ability to testify at trial, the judge ruled.
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