Sentencing hearing booked for man convicted in 2017 Surrey killing<\/p>\n
Published 1:20 pm Friday, March 6, 2026<\/p>\n
The judge who\u2019ll rule on when convicted killer Brandon Nathan Teixeira might once again venture out in public is to hear arguments regarding the matter next month in B.C. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
Teixeira was found guilty last summer of murder, attempted murder and discharge a firearm with intent in connection with the October 2017 shooting death of Nicholas Khabra in South Surrey, and the wounding of a woman who testified that she was with Khabra on the day he was killed.<\/p>\n
The sentencing hearing \u2013 set for April 1-2, 2026 in New Westminster \u2013 follows Teixeira\u2019s failed efforts to have his convictions set aside.<\/p>\n
Justice Jennifer Duncan on Feb. 25 dismissed Teixeira\u2019s application for a judicial stay, which contended his rights to a trial within a reasonable time had been violated.<\/p>\n
Arrested in December 2019, the trial got underway in February of last year, with the jury\u2019s findings rendered on Aug. 25.<\/p>\n
A first-degree murder conviction comes with an automatic life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years. The clock on full parole eligibility starts when the offender is taken into custody. Reaching the eligibility date does not mean an automatic release; that decision is made by the Parole Board of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sentencing hearing booked for man convicted in 2017 Surrey killing Published 1:20 pm Friday, March 6, 2026 The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-520173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520173","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=520173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}