Teixeira's Life Hangs in Balance for Murder, Attempted Murder

0:00It's April 1st. Welcome in. This is Vancouver News today, where local news meets AI. Brandon Tixera got convicted last August of first-degree murder and attempted murder for shooting back in October 2017 in Surrey, British Columbia. He killed 28-year-old Nicholas Cabra and wounded the woman driving him to the meet-up. That conviction came nearly eight years after the crime. Prosecutors are pushing hard now in BC Supreme Court for life sentences on both counts. They call it an execution-style hit tied to a $160,000 contract to Tixera, planned to split, plus revenge over and earlier. Drive by attempt on him. Cabra took four gunshots and 31 stabs, leaving a brutal scene. The surviving woman spoke in court about her trauma, saying someday she feels strong, others completely broken. She stressed Cabra didn't deserve it and neither did she or her family. Crown says contract killings like this shatter community safety. Tixera's lawyer pushes back, arguing the jury didn't have to buy the contract story

1:02for the murder verdict, and it doesn't touch the attempted. Murder charge. He notes Tissera lacks a long, violent record, fled to California under a fake name till his 2019 arrest, and even lost a bid to Tosta. Case over-try out the lays. Sentencing wraps up soon with Justice Jennifer Duncan, deciding if it's life with 25 years before parole on the murder, running alongside the... other life term. This case highlights how these hits ripple through lives for years.