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Youth pleads guilty to role in Shawn Douglas homicide
Heather Polischuk • Regina Leader-Post
Feb 13, 2017 • June 2, 2020 • 1 minute read
The Court of Queen's Bench in Regina. Photo by MICHAEL BELL /Regina Leader-Post
Sentencing has been set over to late March for a 19-year-old man who has pleaded guilty to playing a role in the August 2014 death of Shawn Roderick Douglas.
The man — who cannot be named under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act because he was 17 at the time of the homicide — appeared at Regina Court of Queen's Bench last week, where he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.
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Facts and submissions were not heard at that time, with sentencing set over to March 24 to allow time for a pre-sentence report to be prepared.
The youth was one of several people charged with first-degree murder after the body of 54-year-old Douglas was found in the Zehner district northeast of Regina on Aug. 9, 2014. It's alleged Douglas was killed on Aug. 7, the date Regina police received a report of a non-responsive person being placed in a vehicle near the 200 block of Quebec Street North.
The 19-year-old is one of two youths charged, with the other remaining before the court.
Also still before the court are four adults: Johnathon Nelson Peepeetch, Dennis Calvin Thompson, Joshua Duane Wilson and Aiden James Anaquod.
In September, a mistrial was declared in the case of Peepeetch, Thompson and Wilson after two of the men fired their lawyers in the days leading to the trial, with the lawyer for the third withdrawing following jury selection.
A fifth adult, Michael McNab, previously had his murder charge stayed by the Crown.
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