ManitobaOne of two teenagers behind a string of fatal attacks in Winnipeg’s Point Douglas neighbourhood three years ago is now waiting to hear whether he will be sentenced as an adult.Co-accused who also pleaded guilty in 2022 beatings got life in prison last monthArturo Chang · CBC News · Posted: Nov 24, 2025 8:12 PM EST | Last Updated: 4 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Winnipeg police at the scene of an assault on Main Street, between Logan and Higgins avenues, on Aug. 22, 2022. (Jeff Stapleton/CBC)One of two teenagers behind a string of fatal attacks in Winnipeg’s Point Douglas neighbourhood three years ago is now waiting to hear whether he will be sentenced as an adult.Court of King’s Bench Justice Sarah Inness will be hearing arguments this week on whether the teen — who pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in the 2022 killings — should get an automatic life sentence for each charge.He was 15 when he and another teen brutally attacked 36-year-old Danielle Dawn Ballantyne, 51-year-old Troy Baguley and Marvin William Felix — a 54-year-old amputee who used a wheelchair.Justice Gerald Chartier said during the trial that the sentence was needed to hold the teen accountable for “willful and calculated” assaults that specifically targeted vulnerable people.Manslaughter charges for the teen who is still awaiting sentencing were stayed. On Monday, court heard from a psychologist who analyzed his cognitive capabilities for a report prepared before the killings.Dr. Ross McCallum told defence lawyer Zach Kinahan that most cognitive skills tested as part of the 2022 Manitoba Adolescent Treatment Centre report showed the teen was operating at a 10-year-old level. He was diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder by a different doctor, McCallum said.The psychiatrist said the results would indicate the teen was more likely to act based on his immediate environment rather than reason things out based on past experience. McCallum said he also had potential issues being easily influenced by other people.”That would be captured in the social skills area,” McCallum said. “And that was his particular area of weakness,” adding that also encompassed things like vulnerability or the ability to self-regulate.Crown prosecutor Lisa Carson questioned whether his cognitive skills would not allow him to properly understand he was hurting people, at one point showing McCallum a photograph taken at the scene of Ballantyne’s killing.”It is quite graphic,” she said.Attacks in 2022Court previously heard the attacks happened within the span of an hour in three separate locations blocks from each other in the early hours of Aug. 22, 2022.Ballantyne was found dead in an apartment building that morning. Felix, who was found injured in an alley near the Bell Hotel, died in hospital days later.Baguley suffered from a traumatic brain injury after he was assaulted in a parking lot and died in 2023. An adult and a then 14-year-old teen who saw the two boys attacking him and joined in that beating were also arrested for their involvement. Last month, a King’s Bench judge ruled the other teen should get the adult sentence for two counts of second-degree murder and one count of manslaughter. Charges against the third teen were stayed. Tristan Colten Moose, who was 20 at the time of the attack, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced last year.The maximum youth sentence for second-degree murder is seven years.ABOUT THE AUTHORArturo Chang is a reporter with CBC Manitoba. Before that, he worked for CBC P.E.I. and BNN Bloomberg. You can reach him at arturo.chang@cbc.ca.
Adult sentencing application hearing begins for 2nd teen in Point Douglas killings
