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A man found guilty of using his pickup truck to kill four members of a Muslim family was sentenced Thursday to life in prison as a Canadian judge ruled that the actions of the admitted white nationalist amounted to terrorism.

Nathaniel Veltman has also been sentenced to a concurrent life sentence for the attempted murder of a boy who survived the 2021 attack.

Veltman, 23, was found guilty in November of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder for hitting the Afzaal family with his truck while they were out for a walk.

Prosecutors argued that Veltman purposely ran his truck into the Afzaal family while they were out for a walk on June 6, 2021, to intimidate Muslims into leaving Canada. The defense sought to show he wasn’t criminally liable saying he had mental health problems.

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[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Ruined his entire life at the age of 23 because of hatred

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He tried to claim that his actions were due to white nationalism, that he read stuff on the internet that made him want to kill, but then he changed his story to "I took psilocybin mushrooms 2 days ago and I didn't know what I was doing!" He's a loser piece of shit with a fucked up looking head.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago

I've taken psilocybin mushrooms several times and never murdered a muslim family because I'm not a racist terrorist.

[–] Lemming421@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

As the saying goes: "cool motive. Still murder".

[–] MinorLaceration@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And ruined the life of the 9 year old boy who survived the attack, despite being seriously injured and watching his family members die.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Locals that went to the funeral talked about how sad it was to watch an 11 year old boy all alone in a wheelchair roll himself from coffin to coffin to say goodbye to his family.

I read his victim impact statement, and man it made me tear up:

Me and Yumnah had plans that when she finally got her driver's licence, she'd drive me around. She said it would cost 25 cents per drive. Now I'll never be able to see that.

I wouldn't be able to have some of the delicious food that my family used to make like Yumnah's pasta, Ami's all around food (because nothing was better than the other), Baba's butter chicken and Dadi-Jaan's potato wedges," the boy wrote.

It's short and worth the full read tbh..

[–] MinorLaceration@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I get a 404 error with your link. Is it the same boy? OPs article says 9 years old.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

Weird, it works fine for me on desktop, but I replaced it with a new link that hopefully works.

And yeah, the attack happened in 2021, so the boy would be 11-12 today, and would have been 9 at the funeral. Just tragic.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Not even his own hatred.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wow I thought he would get life in prison not Canada.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He should never be allowed to leave prison. Except to move to another prison. 🤬

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

You spelled grave incorrectly.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

None of the Canadian news outlets are fully reporting the details of this story such as the concurrent nature of the life sentences. Somehow AP got all the facts.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

He should have gotten out of the car and cannibalized one of his victims, they'd have given him some pills and a slap on the wrist

[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

Damn all the muslims for causing rime rates to go up! ^/s