Killer of Lapu Lapu suspect’s brother calls festival attack a ‘ripple effect’

By Brieanna Charlebois The murderer of a man whose brother was later arrested for the Lapu Lapu festival attack that killed 11 people in Vancouver last April has called it a “ripple effect” from his own crime 15 months earlier. Dwight Kematch, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the January 2024 killing of Alexander Lo in July, told his British Columbia Supreme Court sentencing hearing that what followed was a “horrendous tragedy.” “I deeply apologize for what I’ve done,” he told the court Friday, before Justice F. Matthew Kirchner handed him a sentence of life imprisonment with no eligibility to apply for parole for 13 years. The hearing in Vancouver was attended by video by Adam Kai-Ji Lo, who is charged with 11 counts of murder and 31 charges…

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