Teen who pleaded guilty in stabbing death of Hamilton student Devan Selvey faces sentencing hearing today
CBC
The teenager who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of 14-year-old Devan Selvey behind their Hamilton high school is set to be sentenced today.
The accused was also 14 and has been in custody since Devan was stabbed outside Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School on Oct. 7, 2019.
Now 16, he pleaded guilty in a surprise move in November. He can't be identified under a court-ordered publication ban.
Shari-Ann Selvey cradled Devan in her arms after her son was stabbed.
"To me it's not going to matter what his sentence is because it's never going to be enough time," she told CBC on Thursday. "He'll get out and he gets to live his life, and we're still going to be missing Devan."
It's not clear how long sentencing will take.
Justice Andrew Goodman of Ontario Superior Court previously said he planned to set aside a full day to hear victim impact statements.
An agreed statement of facts, read in court when the accused pleaded guilty, said the teen stabbed Devan once in the right, upper back.
The murder weapon was a knife with a 15-centimetre blade, which tore through muscle and bone before slicing into Devan's lung, severing his pulmonary artery and causing rapid blood loss, court heard at the time.
Devan was rushed to Hamilton General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Before the stabbing, the two teens were "strangers" who did not know each other, according to the agreed-upon facts.
On the day of the stabbing, Devan and a friend saw a group of teens hanging out near an arena across the road from the high school, including someone he thought had taken his bike about a month earlier, court was told.
He texted his sister and the parents of a friend who arrived at the school shortly afterwards and one of the adults confronted the teens, the facts of the case state.
When an argument broke out, the older brother of the accused used bear mace, sending everyone running from the area.
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