The Crown is seeking an adult sentence for a Lakeshore teenager who admitted to killing his brother.
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In April 2023, a 12-year-old boy was killed at a home in Lakeshore.
On Jan. 14, 2025, his brother pleaded guilty to second degree murder.
In an Agreed Statement of Facts court learned the teen – who was 16 at the time - met his brother at the front door of their home wearing latex gloves.
Court heard he was armed with insect repellant and a lighter and intended to create a “do it yourself flamethrower”.
The prosecutor says when those injuries “failed to fully engulf” his brother, the teenager then hit his brother “repeatedly in the head” with a baseball bat.
He dragged his brother into the kitchen and turned on the natural gas stove believing it would cause an explosion; “destroying the evidence to the crime.”
The teenager fled his home and walked through a back field, without shoes.
He was discovered by neighbours, and he asked them to take him to police, after admitting to what he did.
The teenager said his brother “didn’t deserve to die the way he did.”
After speaking with police, paramedics and firefighters went to the home and found the young boy deceased on the kitchen floor.
Crown to seek adult sentence
The teenager will face a sentencing hearing in April.
Assistant Crown Attorney Eric Costaris said he will be asking for the teenager to be sentenced as an adult.
A pre-sentence report is currently being written on the teenager and he will face a sentencing hearing on April 3 and 4.
