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Manitoba: Innocent Bystander, Second Degree Murder

CanadaImmigrants.com Manitoba Desk - Bullet holes remain in the side of a now closed restaurant's patio near where Phil Haiart, 17, was fatally shot in October 2005. A Winnipeg jury has found a 24 year old Philippine man guilty of the killing of an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of a violent drug dispute between two street gangs. Haiart, 17, died of a gunshot wound to the stomach after he was shot near the intersection of Sargent Avenue and Maryland Street on the night of Oct. 10, 2005. He was acquitted of two counts of attempted murder. Jeff Cansanay was convicted Thursday evening of second degree murder and three counts of discharging a firearm with intent to wound in the shooting death of Phil Haiart, the son of a city doctor. As reported in the news.

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