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This is a disturbing story of a pathological youth who escaped from a youth detention facility, stole cars and ended up breaking into a home, with the intent to steal whatever he could. He bludgeoned a sleeping parent, accidentally hitting a child. He then helped the child back to sleep. The mother discovered her husband's body and her sleeping child when she came home from her night shift as a nurse.
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Sask. youth admits murder
By Ryan Cormier, The Starphoenix September 5, 2014 6:37 AM
A Saskatchewan youth admitted this week that he broke into a random Edmonton home, fatally bludgeoned the sleeping owner with a lead pipe and then helped his victim's two-yearold daughter go back to sleep. The youth was 17 when he killed John Stanley Kwiatkowski in his Rundle Heights bedroom during a random break-and-enter on the night of April 13, 2011. In court Wednesday, the now 21-year-old mumbled "Guilty" to a charge of second-degree murder.
Eight days before the murder, the youth escaped the Echo Valley Youth Centre in Regina, where he was serving a 100-day sentence for property offences, according to an agreed statement of facts.
He made his way from Regina to Edmonton in a series of stolen vehicles, the last of which he drove into Rundle Heights with a plan to steal whatever he could find, Crown prosecutor Jim Stewart told court.
The youth armed himself with a metal pipe he found near Kwiatkowski's house before he entered through the open front door. He walked to the master bedroom and struck Kwiatkowski in the head 20 times as the city worker slept.
During the murder, Kwiatkowski's two-year-old daughter came into the bedroom and was inadvertently hit by the pipe as the youth swung it at her father. She suffered minor injuries to her face and hand.
"(The youth) took her back to her bedroom and helped her get back to sleep," Stewart told court.
The youth then stole a video game system, a video camera, clothing and the daughter's piggy bank. He drank a ginger ale and left the empty can on a table before he departed. Investigators later found his DNA on the can. The stolen property was found in the Jeep he drove into Rundle Heights.
Kwiatkowski's wife, a night-shift nurse, discovered her husband's body and her sleeping daughter when she arrived home.
The youth sat in the prisoner's box with his head hung low as the facts were read in court.
Edmonton police found the youth asleep in a stolen car April 17. He was returned to the Regina youth centre to finish his 100-day sentence. At the time, police didn't know the teen had killed Kwiatkowski.
After his release, the youth stabbed a 57-year-old man in the forearm during a September 2011 robbery and was arrested again.
He wasn't charged with Kwiatkowski's murder until May 2012, while still in custody for the Regina robbery. He confessed the killing to an Edmonton police detective.
"I was drunk and I just pretty much took my anger right out on him," the youth said during an interview. He claimed he wouldn't have entered Kwiatkowski's house if the door was locked and would've eventually "took my anger out on someone else on the street."
Several of Kwiatkowski's family members were in court Wednesday, but had no comment. After the youth's arrest, Dave Rudkevitch said he knew his sonin-law hadn't been specifically targeted.
"John was just a great guy. It still doesn't make sense. I never believed that anybody could be out there to get him."
The teen cannot be identified because he was two days short of his 18th birthday at the time of the slaying.
Stewart told court that he will seek an adult sentence for the youth.
A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 15, 2015.
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http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Sask+youth+admits+murder/10176666/story.html
Sask. youth admits murder
By Ryan Cormier, The Starphoenix September 5, 2014 6:37 AM
A Saskatchewan youth admitted this week that he broke into a random Edmonton home, fatally bludgeoned the sleeping owner with a lead pipe and then helped his victim's two-yearold daughter go back to sleep. The youth was 17 when he killed John Stanley Kwiatkowski in his Rundle Heights bedroom during a random break-and-enter on the night of April 13, 2011. In court Wednesday, the now 21-year-old mumbled "Guilty" to a charge of second-degree murder.
Eight days before the murder, the youth escaped the Echo Valley Youth Centre in Regina, where he was serving a 100-day sentence for property offences, according to an agreed statement of facts.
He made his way from Regina to Edmonton in a series of stolen vehicles, the last of which he drove into Rundle Heights with a plan to steal whatever he could find, Crown prosecutor Jim Stewart told court.
The youth armed himself with a metal pipe he found near Kwiatkowski's house before he entered through the open front door. He walked to the master bedroom and struck Kwiatkowski in the head 20 times as the city worker slept.
During the murder, Kwiatkowski's two-year-old daughter came into the bedroom and was inadvertently hit by the pipe as the youth swung it at her father. She suffered minor injuries to her face and hand.
"(The youth) took her back to her bedroom and helped her get back to sleep," Stewart told court.
The youth then stole a video game system, a video camera, clothing and the daughter's piggy bank. He drank a ginger ale and left the empty can on a table before he departed. Investigators later found his DNA on the can. The stolen property was found in the Jeep he drove into Rundle Heights.
Kwiatkowski's wife, a night-shift nurse, discovered her husband's body and her sleeping daughter when she arrived home.
The youth sat in the prisoner's box with his head hung low as the facts were read in court.
Edmonton police found the youth asleep in a stolen car April 17. He was returned to the Regina youth centre to finish his 100-day sentence. At the time, police didn't know the teen had killed Kwiatkowski.
After his release, the youth stabbed a 57-year-old man in the forearm during a September 2011 robbery and was arrested again.
He wasn't charged with Kwiatkowski's murder until May 2012, while still in custody for the Regina robbery. He confessed the killing to an Edmonton police detective.
"I was drunk and I just pretty much took my anger right out on him," the youth said during an interview. He claimed he wouldn't have entered Kwiatkowski's house if the door was locked and would've eventually "took my anger out on someone else on the street."
Several of Kwiatkowski's family members were in court Wednesday, but had no comment. After the youth's arrest, Dave Rudkevitch said he knew his sonin-law hadn't been specifically targeted.
"John was just a great guy. It still doesn't make sense. I never believed that anybody could be out there to get him."
The teen cannot be identified because he was two days short of his 18th birthday at the time of the slaying.
Stewart told court that he will seek an adult sentence for the youth.
A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 15, 2015.
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