A B.C. court has convicted a woman of stabbing a stranger to death in Vancouver\u2019s Yaletown three years ago.<\/p>\n
At 8:30 a.m. on July 11, 2022, 29-year-old Justin Mohrmann was stabbed in the chest near the intersection of Smithe and Homer streets.<\/p>\n
Less than a week later, the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) arrested then-34-year-old Lindsay Scott, who was charged with second-degree murder.<\/p>\n
In an update Thursday, the VPD says Scott was recently found guilty of manslaughter. The court imposed a six-year jail sentence, followed by a three-year probation, a 10-year firearms prohibition, with mandatory treatment at a forensic hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe court found that mental illness and drug use were factors in the offence,\u201d police explained.<\/p>\n
Mohrmann\u2019s death happened amid a reported series of stranger attacks in Vancouver at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A B.C. court has convicted a woman of stabbing a stranger to death in Vancouver\u2019s Yaletown three years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-37621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37621","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=37621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}