A jury found Andrei Donet guilty of the second-degree murder of 16-year-old Jannai Dopwell-Bailey.
Donet was 18 when he was arrested in connection with the case in 2021. The second-degree murder conviction comes with an automatic life sentence in prison with no possibility of parole before 10 years.
Dopwell-Bailey was fatally stabbed outside a high school in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges district in 2021.
Crown prosecutor Katerine Brabant said Donet’s distinctive tattoos seen in a video he published on social media after the attack helped identify him, leading to his arrest. In the video, Donet, wearing a balaclava, wields a can of pepper spray with tattooed fingers as a second boy flashes a knife at the camera.
A minor was also convicted for second-degree murder in December 2023 for the same case. The identity of the teen is protected by a publication ban because he was a minor when he stabbed Dopwell-Bailey.
Donet’s sentencing will be determined at the end of the month.
More to come.