{"id":791808,"date":"2026-07-10T01:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791808\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T01:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:55:28","slug":"kane-carter-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-2018-vancouver-shooting-that-killed-15-year-old-bystander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/791808\/","title":{"rendered":"Kane Carter sentenced to life in prison for 2018 Vancouver shooting that killed 15-year-old bystander"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The man accused of killing an innocent teenager and a gang member in a shootout eight years ago has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 17 years.<\/p>\n

Kane Carter was found guilty last December of the second-degree murders of 15-year-old Alfred Wong and 23-year-old Kevin Whiteside.<\/p>\n

A second-degree murder conviction comes with an automatic life sentence. Accounting for time already served, Carter can apply for parole in 2039.<\/p>\n

Wong was riding in the backseat of his parents car on their way home from dinner when he was hit in the chest by a stray bullet from an exchange of gunfire along Vancouver’s busy Broadway on Jan. 13, 2018.<\/p>\n

Speaking outside the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, Wilfred Wong said his brother Alfred is missed dearly and not a day goes by where the family doesn’t think about him.<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t feel quite like closure but it’s a step in the process,” he said. “We’re thankful that through this system that the city will be safer.”<\/p>\n

\"KaneKane Carter, found guilty on two counts of second-degree murder, has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 17 years. (Felicity Don\/CBC)<\/p>\n

The officer in charge of the investigation for the past eight years said Wong’s murder caused fear and outrage that an innocent teen was the victim of gang violence.<\/p>\n

“What should have been a family night out for the Wong’s ended up in a horrifying tragedy that shook the city of Vancouver,” said Vancouver police Insp. Mike Heard. “Alfred’s death was needless.”<\/p>\n

Investigators say Whiteside was trying to kill rival gangster Matthew Navas-Rivas as he left a Broadway restaurant when Carter opened fire. Crown prosecutors said during trial that Carter was trying to protect Navas-Rivas.<\/p>\n

Navas-Rivas was unharmed that night, however he was killed a few months later in a targeted shooting in East Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Carter was arrested in 2022 in Gravenhurst, Ont., north of Toronto. In 2024, his first trial was declared a mistrial and a retrial was ordered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-791808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791808","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=791808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}