{"id":66737,"date":"2015-12-09T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=66737"},"modified":"2015-12-09T21:36:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T02:36:55","slug":"teen-sentenced-as-adult-for-beating-death-of-edmonton-father-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/09\/teen-sentenced-as-adult-for-beating-death-of-edmonton-father-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen sentenced as adult for beating death of Edmonton father in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27773\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_61372366.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27773\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27773\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_61372366.jpg\" alt=\"(ShutterStock image)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_61372366.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_61372366-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_61372366-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(ShutterStock image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>EDMONTON \u2013 A man who was two days shy of his 18th birthday when he fatally beat an Edmonton father in front of his toddler has been sentenced as an adult.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Paul earlier pleaded guilty as a youth to second-degree murder in the 2011 death of John Kwiatkowski.<\/p>\n<p>Court heard Paul ran away from a youth centre in Regina and travelled to Edmonton in a series of stolen vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>He got drunk and, planning to steal from cars and houses, walked into Kwiatkowski\u2019s unlocked home and beat the man with a metal pipe as he was sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>Paul accidentally struck Kwiatkowski\u2019s two-year-old daughter with the pipe when she walked in on the beating.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, who is now 22, automatically gets a life sentence and is eligible for parole after serving seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Kwiatkowski says he was focused on hating Paul for the death of his brother but listened as the killer told court about his troubled upbringing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHearing what happened in his life, from his own mouth, kind of throws a different spin on things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel bad for him but, at the same time, like I said before, he made his decision on what he wanted to do that night and he\u2019s got to live with it. And unfortunately so do all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2013 A man who was two days shy of his 18th birthday when he fatally beat an Edmonton father &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":27773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[9636],"class_list":["post-66737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-cp","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}