Peter Khill will serve eight years in federal prison for the killing of Six Nations man Jon Styres.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Andrew Goodman sentenced Khill on Tuesday in a packed Hamilton courtroom, seven years after he shot Styres in the driveway of Khill’s home. In December, a jury had found Khill not guilty of second-degree murder but guilty of manslaughter.
One night in February 2016, Khill woke up to noises outside. He grabbed his shotgun from his closet and ammunition from his nightstand and went outside. He found Styres breaking into this truck and fired two shots, killing the father of two.
Khill had pleaded not guilty, claiming he acted in self-defence.
“Peter’s actions should be discouraged,” Goodman said Tuesday. “Civilians should not take the law into their own hands. We should not encourage brazen killing of intruders.”
Goodman told the courtroom, filled with members of Styres’s and Khill’s family, that he also took into consideration Khill doesn’t have a criminal record and appeared remorseful for taking Styres’s life.
The high-profile case attracted public interest as it bore similarities to the 2016 shooting death of Colton Boushie, a 22-year-old Cree man in Saskatchewan.
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