Man pleads not guilty in stabbing death of girl at Abbotsford high school
Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 19:29:02 +0000
A man accused of killing a 13-year-old student and wounding another in an Abbotsford high school has pleaded not guilty to the crimes.
Gabriel Klein is accused of stabbed Letisha Reimer to death and injuring a second girl at their high school in Abbotsford on Nov. 1, 2016.
Crown lawyer Rob Macgowan has told a B.C. Supreme Court judge that an autopsy revealed Reimer died of 14 stab wounds.
He says the other girl, whose name is under a publication ban, suffered four stab wounds, including to her right eyelid and chest, leading to a collapsed lung.
The court was shown a graphic video taken by a student from the third floor overlooking the school’s rotunda, where a man is seen repeatedly stabbing a screaming girl on the floor.
Klein had been held at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam since the death, but a B.C. Review board found him mentally fit to stand trial on the charges in January.
Letisha Reimer died during an attack at Abbotsford Senior Secondary School.