Man gets life in prison for killing high school sweethearts

PEACE RIVER- A man who admitted to killing a pair of high school sweethearts on a northern Alberta reserve has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 13 years.

Edward Devin Boyce Gladue was sentenced yesterday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the July 2016 deaths of Dylan Laboucan and Cory Grey on the Whitefish First Nation.

According to an agreed statement of facts read in Peace River Court of Queen’s Bench, the 20-year-old man went to the Laboucan family trailer where the two teens lived.

He shot Laboucan in the chest and assaulted and asphyxiated Grey before shooting her in the back of the head at close range.

The court also heard that Gladue then placed the bodies in separate remote locations on the reserve.

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Prior to sentencing, the Crown prosecutor read victim impact statements that focused on the pain relatives of the slain couple have suffered since the murders.

Gladue apologized to both families, saying he doesn’t know why he killed the couple and that he will regret his actions for the rest of his life.

Justice Sandra Hunt told the court the slain teens will never be forgotten.

(The Canadian Press – CBC)