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A teenager convicted a year ago of second-degree murder in the death of a 16-year-old girl in Regina has been sentenced as a youth.
Now 18, the teen was handed an 80-month sentence Friday. After being given credit for time served, the teen’s sentence is 62 months. The first two-thirds of that is to be spent in custody.
The boy was 15 when Erica Hill O’Watch was stabbed to death during a party at a home in the 900 block of Cameron Street on Oct. 14, 2018.
After the boy was found guilty during a trial in November of 2020, the Crown applied to have him sentenced as an adult.
On Friday, Justice Janet McMurtry announced the teen — who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act — instead would be sentenced as a youth.
On the night of the murder, police responded to a home near Grassick Park around 12:30 a.m., for a weapons call. Officers and paramedics found an injured girl, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
It was Regina’s fifth murder of 2018.
The investigation into the stabbing allowed police to identify, locate and arrest the boy.