Man accused of killing B.C. high school student maintains silence
SURREY, B.C. — The case against a man accused of stabbing two girls at an Abbotsford, B.C., high school will move ahead despite the man’s persistent silence, a judge says.
The court heard on Wednesday that Gabriel Klein, 21, hasn’t spoken with counsel nor responded to questions put to him during any of the his three court appearances since his arrest on Nov. 1.
Klein faces one charge each of second-degree murder and aggravated assault linked to what police have said was a random attack that killed Grade 9 student Letisha Reimer, 13, and injured another girl. The identity of the second girl is protected under a publication ban.
Klein was first scheduled to appear in court last Wednesday, the day after the two girls were attacked in the front entrance of Abbotsford Senior Secondary. But it ended before it began because he would not leave the courthouse cells to appear in person, the court heard.