Sentencing for Alberta teen found guilty of shooting German tourist
CALGARY — A sentencing hearing is to be held today for a youth found guilty of shooting a German tourist in the head on a highway west of Calgary in 2018.
Last October, a judge convicted the teen from the Stoney Nakoda First Nation, who is now 18, of aggravated assault and recklessly discharging a firearm into a vehicle.
Because he was 16 at the time, he cannot be identified.
Court heard that Horst Stewin was driving a black SUV on the First Nation’s land in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with his family when someone in a passing car shot him. His vehicle veered off the highway and crashed into some trees.