Maximum youth sentence sought for teen who killed man

A teenager who killed a man on a river valley stairway will have to wait until next month to be sentenced.

The teen, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, pleaded guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder. He was 15 at the time of the attack.

The 25-year-old victim was found early on May 17, 2010 on the stairs near the Hotel MacDonald in downtown Edmonton. The man, who had last been seen alive at an inner-city shelter, died of a single stab wound.

CBC News decided not to name him last year in order to report the details of his troubled past.

According to the agreed statement of facts, the accused carried a machete and a knife to the stairway, after earlier indicating on his Facebook page that he wanted to "spill some guts."

He found the victim asleep on the staircase and stabbed him.

Crown prosecutor Dave Hill told the judge that he agrees with defence lawyer Pat Yuzwenko that the boy should serve seven years — the maximum sentence allowed under the Youth Criminal Justice Act — with four in custody and three in intensive rehabilitation.

Yuzwenko told the court that the boy was brutally abused as a young child and his mother died violently.

The boy wants to change and he wants to get into programming for those at a highest risk to reoffend, she said.

Sentencing is scheduled to take place on July 11.

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