By Sheldon Spackman

Nov. 16

Sentencing date set in fatal Lacombe shooting

Oct 14, 2021 | 10:20 AM

Sentencing is scheduled to take place next month for a man charged in the fatal shooting of a young Ponoka man in Lacombe nearly two years ago.

Tyler John Campbell, 29, of Lacombe, is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 16 in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench for the shooting death of 20-year-old Jeffery Kraft.

Kraft passed away on Dec. 15, 2019 following injuries sustained from a gunshot wound in what has been described in court as an ‘accidental’ shooting over an alleged debt.

The sentencing date comes after Campbell’s application to withdraw his earlier guilty plea to manslaughter with a firearm was denied by Justice C.K.W. Thietke on Oct. 1.

Campbell made the application after Judge Jim Hunter twice rejected a joint sentencing submission from the Crown and defence of a seven year prison sentence.

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