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Vancouver Starbucks Stabbing Trial Opens With Video Played in Court After Not-Guilty Plea

Prosecutors say the case turns on proving intent to cause bodily harm likely to cause death.

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Paul Schmidt with daughter Erica, 3. Paul Schmidt was stabbed outside a Vancouver Starbucks. He was taken to hospital and later died from is injuries. Inderdeep Singh Gosal, 32, has been charged with second-degree murder.
A woman pauses at a makeshift memorial for Paul Stanley Schmidt, 37, who died after being stabbed outside a Starbucks in downtown Vancouver on March 29, 2023. Inderdeep Singh Gosal, who was 32 at the time, was charged with second-degree murder. Investigators do not believe the suspect and victim knew each other. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Overview

  • Inderdeep Singh Gosal pleaded not guilty and is being tried by a judge alone in B.C. Supreme Court.
  • On the first day, the court viewed security and cellphone videos tracing his travel downtown and the brief patio confrontation on March 26, 2023.
  • Prosecutor Karin Blok told the court the encounter and stabbing unfolded in about 25 seconds.
  • Coverage describes the incident at Granville and Pender as occurring in front of Paul Schmidt’s fiancée and three-year-old daughter, with bystanders posting the footage online despite pleas to remove it.
  • Reports differ on whether Schmidt was stabbed five or six times, and the trial before Justice Kathleen Ker is expected to run about five weeks.