Posted: Apr 16, 2021 1:41 PM AT | Last Updated: April 16
After a day of smoking marijuana and drinking last summer, Tyler Gamblin stabbed Nathan Gallant six times and left him in the ditch on the side of the road. (RCMP)
A 20-year-old Saint John man who stabbed his friend six times and left him on the side of the road to bleed to death was sentenced Friday to 8½ years in prison.Â
Tyler Gamblin was originally charged with second-degree murder in the death of 29-year-old Nathan Gallant but pleaded guilty in January to the lesser charge of manslaughter.Â
Before sentencing Gamblin on Friday, Justice Darrell Stephenson said the attack on Gallant was without significant provocation. Â He described it as an abrupt, brutal, largely unprovoked attack. Â