Man Found Guilty of Manslaughter, Aggravated Assault

0:00A 45-year-old man named Clayton Barard has been found guilty of manslaughter in the stabbing death of Ida Rosalie knife and aggravated assault. On another victim, both the tax happening in Central Edmonton back in 2019. The first incident involved 48-year-old Rose knife, who was stabbed multiple times just after leaving a shelter on the morning of March 28th. She died later in hospital and the judge relied on circumstantial evidence to link Barard to the crime, even without a direct eyewitness. Hours later, Albert Stevens in his late 40s was stabbed in the neck and face at a nearby community center. He survived after surgeries, but faced huge setbacks, losing his housing and job stability before passing away in April 2022. Unrelated causes. Staff at the center's remembered Barard acting unusually that day, sitting alone for hours, and DNA from Stevens mashed a knife found on Barard when. He was arrested. The original first-degree murder charge for knife was reduced over time to manslaughter.

1:02Barard also has a prior manslaughter conviction from 2019 for killing his cellmate at Edmonton Vermont Center. Synancing for these latest convictions is still to come as the court wraps up the case. That's your update from Canada News Today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with the story.