Overview
- Police say the 21-year-old shot his mother, Barbara Waite, in the back of the head as she played the piano at their home in Squamish, British Columbia.
- He filmed the aftermath on a GoPro and later walked into a Vancouver police station, telling an officer, "I killed my mother."
- Investigators found his car loaded with three firearms, ammunition, 12 Molotov cocktails and a printed map to Justin Trudeau's residence.
- He told authorities he intended to assassinate the prime minister and had considered other targets before turning back near Hope and surrendering.
- At sentencing, psychiatric reports said he killed to prevent her witnessing planned violence, while prosecutors called the murder a premeditated and selfish breach of trust.