Life Sentence for Ottawa iPod murder

Nicole Martinelli ()

19-year-old Shawn McKenzie has been found guilty of first-degree murder for the stabbing death of Michael Oatway over an iPod.

Oatway, 23, refused to give the iPod he’d borrowed from his girlfriend to McKenzie while the two were on an Ottawa bus in September 2006. McKenzie stabbed him once in the heart, then fled.  He was arrested the next day.

Michael Oatway was 23 when he was stabbed and killed during an iPod robbery in September 2006.

Michael Oatway was 23 when he was stabbed and killed during an iPod robbery in September 2006.

Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger sentenced McKenzie to life in prison. The judge tried the 19-year-old as an adult, finding that a youth sentence would not be sufficient to hold him accountable for his actions. He will not be eligible for parole for 10 years.

Via National Post

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  • Belengazi

    Quite sickening.

    And my god, what a contrast with Japanese public transport. Here I’ve seen a new iPod nano left behind on a train seat. Seemingly out of respect for another’s property nobody even moved it in order to sit down – even as the train became jam packed – let alone swiped it.

  • Belengazi

    P.S. And let the punishment fit the crime – life imprisonment with but a Zune for entertainment.

  • rauy

    to think that I’ve read somewhere on the net about Asians being more violent than other races…oh well….