Nick Vanasse has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering Steven Butler and assaulting Butler's son in a 2019 confrontation outside the victim's family home in Ottawa's Overbrook neighbourhood.
Nick Vanasse has been found guilty of murdering Steven Butler and assaulting Butler's son in a 2019 confrontation outside the victim's family home in Ottawa's Overbrook neighbourhood.
Nick Vanasse was a cowardly 19 year old who made a deliberate choice to "sucker stab" a middle-age man who was just trying to protect his family, an Ottawa prosecutor alleged Monday in his closing arguments to a jury.