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Trevor Powder to serve life sentence for death of Tyler McDermid

Last Updated Nov 29, 2018 at 8:38 am MDT

PHOTO. Fort McMurray Court House 2017. Nathalia Cordeau-Hilliard. Reporter.

EDIT: A Previous version of this article stated Powder was sentenced during a parole hearing on Nov. 25. 

Trevor Powder, 23, has been been sentenced to life with no possibility of parole for 12 years.

Powder’s fate was determined at his sentencing hearing on Nov. 28 in Fort McMurray Provincial Court.

He was originally charged with first degree murder in the 2015 shooting death of Tyler McDermid.

However, on Sept. 14, 2018, Powder was found guilty by a jury of second degree murder.