Overview
- Ontario Superior Court sentenced Richard Edwin to two concurrent life terms with parole eligibility set for 2047.
- Justice Jane Kelly rejected a not‑criminally‑responsible defence despite diagnosing schizophrenia, ruling the murders were planned and deliberate.
- Kartik Vasudev, a 21-year-old Indian student, was shot near Sherbourne subway station on April 7, 2022, and Elijah Mahepath, 35, was killed two days later in downtown Toronto.
- The judgment pointed to evidence of planning, including Edwin’s admissions, calm conduct, disposal of clothing from both shootings minutes after returning home, and a legally obtained cache of firearms.
- Under Canadian law, first‑degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with a 25‑year wait before parole, while an NCR ruling would have placed the case under a provincial review board rather than prison.