{"id":246655,"date":"2025-10-28T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/246655\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:31:09","slug":"three-men-sentenced-in-2022-shooting-death-at-ubc-golf-course-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/246655\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men sentenced in 2022 shooting death at UBC golf course | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761694269_457_imageRedirect\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Law Courts building, which is home to B.C. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, is seen in Vancouver, on Thursday, November 23, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 28, 2025 | 4:06 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says all three men convicted in the 2022 shooting death of Vishal Walia at a golf club on the lands of the University of British Columbia have been sentenced. <\/p>\n<p>Police say Deandre Baptiste, Balraj Basra and Iqbal Kang were all charged with first-degree murder four days after Walia was gunned down at the University Golf Club on Oct. 17, 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the three men were arrested that morning, less than an hour after police were called to the club on the university endowment lands in Vancouver. <\/p>\n<p>The homicide team says Kang pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder last month and was sentenced to 17 years in prison, while Baptiste pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in May and sentenced to life in prison without being eligible for parole for 17 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Law Courts building, which is home to B.C. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, is seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,622,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-246655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-golf","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}