By EverythingGP

MURDER SENTENCE

Edmonton man found guilty of murder in 2014 bar shooting

Jun 25, 2019 | 7:48 AM

GRANDE PRAIRIE- A judge has rejected an argument of self-defence in convicting an Edmonton man of first-degree murder in the shooting death of another Edmonton man outside a Grande Prairie bar.

Nicholas Richard Harris was charged after John William Rock died outside the Canadian Brewhouse in Grande Prairie in October 2014.

Harris, 37, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance at parole for 25 years.

In his decision, Queen’s Bench Justice Eldon Simpson stated the killing was planned and deliberate.

Simpson noted that Harris started carrying a handgun months earlier when the two former friends who were part of the same drug-dealing ring had a falling out over a $30,000 drug debt that Harris owed Rock.

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Harris had testified he aimed downward trying to stop Rock in an attack, but the judge pointed out that video showed a second shot Harris fired was horizontal and hit Rock in the chest.

(Everything Grande Prairie)