A young Montrealer was found guilty of the second degree murder of Jannai Dopwell-Bailey, stabbed outside school in 2021.
The jury returned its verdict on Sunday at the Montreal courthouse. The trial of Andreï Donet, 21, opened last April, three years after the death of Jannai Dopwell-Bailey.
The 16-year-old teenager was killed in front of his high school located on Van Horne Avenue, in the Côte-des-Neiges district.
On October 18, 2021, he joined Andreï Donet, who was waiting for him in a park with two friends after school.
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Andrei Donet
Very quickly, his attackers sprayed him with pepper spray before chasing him into the parking lot of the building, where they brutally stabbed him. The teenager received nearly ten stab wounds to his upper body.
According to the theory put forward by the Crown, a rivalry between two groups of young people belonging to different sectors of Montreal would be at the heart of the violent attack.
Sentencing submissions will take place at the end of the month.
Another teen, whose identity is being protected because he was a minor at the time of the crime, was convicted of second-degree murder of Jannai Dopwell-Bailey last December.