Vancouver man receives five-year prison sentence for fatal stabbing in 2018

Update: VPD investigation leads to guilty plea in Downtown Eastside homicide - Vancouver Police Department

Vancouver – A 39-year-old Vancouver man has pled guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to jail following a VPD investigation into a 2018 homicide in the Downtown Eastside. Benny Rae Armstrong received a five-year jail sentence this week for the stabbing death of 26-year-old Abeal Negussie Abera, near West Hastings and Abbott Street on June 23, 2018. Armstrong was credited with 740 days for the time he spent in custody before he was sentenced,…

Vancouver man receives five-year prison sentence for fatal stabbing in 2018 – Energeticcity.ca

VANCOUVER — A Vancouver man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the stabbing death of another man in the city’s Downtown Eastside. Police say Benny Armstrong has been sentenced to five years in jail, in addition to a 10-year firearms prohibition, for the death of 26-year-old Abeal Abera in June 2018. Police say the stabbing happened when two people were involved in an altercation on West Hastings near Abbott streets. The victim died in hospita…

Vancouver man receives five-year prison sentence for fatal stabbing in 2018

VANCOUVER — A Vancouver man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the stabbing death of another man in the city’s Downtown Eastside. Police say Benny Armstrong has been sentenced to five years in jail, in addition to a 10-year firearms prohibition, for the death of 26-year-old Abeal Abera in June 2018. Police say the stabbing happened when two people were involved in an altercation on West Hastings near Abbott streets. The victim died in hospita…