US EditionSupreme Court won’t hear case of Ontario man who fatally shot Indigenous man
- The Supreme Court of Canada rejected Peter Khill's request to appeal his conviction for manslaughter after he shot Jonathan Styres during a truck break-in on February 4, 2016.
- Peter Khill was initially found not guilty of second-degree murder but guilty of manslaughter, resulting in an eight-year prison sentence.
- In 2022, a jury's decision led to Peter Khill's conviction for manslaughter, claiming he acted in self-defense based on his military training.
- Earlier in 2025, the Court of Appeal for Ontario dismissed Khill's appeal of his conviction but reduced his sentence to six years.
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Brantford ExpositorSupreme Court won’t hear case of Peter Khill, who fatally shot Six Nations man
The nearly decade-long case of an Ontario man found guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an Indigenous man has come to a close after Canada’s top court declined to hear it.
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Supreme Court won’t hear case of Ontario man who fatally shot Indigenous man
The Supreme Court won’t hear Peter Khill’s case, finalizing his manslaughter conviction in the 2016 shooting of Indigenous man Jonathan Styres in Ontario.
The case, which lasted almost 10 years, concerning an Ontarian convicted of involuntary homicide for the murder of an Aboriginal, ended after the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear it. On Thursday, the highest court in the country rejected Peter Khill's application for leave to appeal, who shot Jonathan Styres after he found him searching his truck in front of his Hamilton home in the early morning of February 4, 2016. As usual, the Supreme…
Supreme Court won't hear case of Ontario man who fatally shot Six Nations' man - The Turtle Island News
The case of an Ontario man found guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an Indigenous man has come to a close after Canada’s top court declined to hear it. The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a leave to appeal request from Peter Khill, who shot and killed Jonathan Styres after finding the man breaking into his truck in the early morning hours of Feb. 4, 2016. As is its standard practice, the high court did not give reasons for its …
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