Nelson Lugela, who is 21, was convicted earlier this year of shooting Mylan Hicks outside Calgary's Marquee Beer Market in 2016.
The trial heard that several Stampeders, including 23-year-old Hicks, a player on the team's practice roster, had been celebrating a Canadian Football League victory over Winnipeg in a game hours earlier.Witnesses testified that after some pushing and shoving, a person who appeared to be holding a handgun opened fire at Hicks as he was running for cover.His mother, Renee Hill, travelled from the family's home in Detroit to hear the verdict in March.
"How do I arrive at this forgiveness on sentencing day when I get a chance to speak to this young man? Do I tear him down, I feel in my heart he's already torn down, or do I build him up?" she said. "If that killer ever gets free -- and I hope he doesn't -- then he has the capacity and the mind set, I believe, to repeat what he did to my son. I wouldn't want that for any citizen in the United States or Canada.Court heard Lugela and two other young men jumped into an SUV and sped away after Hicks was hit. Police arrested three people about 45 minutes later when they returned to the scene.
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