Man sentenced in 2018 shooting that killed innocent bystander Alfred Wong

A courtroom sketch of Kane Carter, charged with the second-degree murders of two people in Vancouver in 2018.

A B.C. Supreme Court Judge has sentenced a man convicted in a 2018 double homicide to life in prison no chance of parole for 17 years.

Kane Carter, 30, was found guilty of two counts of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths of 15-year-old Alfred Wong and 23-year-old Kevin Whiteside on East Broadway near Ontario Street in Vancouver.

Carter was tried on the same charges in 2024, but the case ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.

During the retrial, Crown counsel told the court that Carter shot at Whiteside after Whiteside opened fire on Matthew Navas-Rivas, who prosecutors said was linked to Carter in a drug-trafficking operation. Wong, an innocent bystander who was in the backseat of his parents’ car, was struck once in the chest and died in hospital days later.

Carter, an Ontario resident, admitted he flew from Hamilton to Abbotsford in October 2017 and began renting a condo under his younger brother’s name the following month.

He also admitted he flew back to Ontario one week after the shootings.

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