Posted: Jan 27, 2021 4:52 PM MT | Last Updated: January 27
Blood-stained front sidewalk in front of the house in Chipman where two men were shot.(RCMP/Court exhibit)
An Edmonton jury on Wednesday found Raymond Nickerson not guilty on two counts of second-degree murder in the 2017 deaths of two men in Chipman, Alta., but guilty on a single count of manslaughter.
Nickerson had been on trial for second-degree murder in the deaths of Jason Williams and Terry Sutton after a dispute in the village 70 kilometres east of Edmonton.
The jury deliberated Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning before announcing it had found Nickerson, 40, not guilty on both second-degree murder charges, but guilty of manslaughter in the death of Williams.