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The man who killed Misha Pavelick in 2006 will learn his fate tomorrow at Regina’s Court of Kings Bench.
The sentencing hearing was originally set for May, but was then rescheduled for June 15 at 1:30 p.m.
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The accused was charged with second-degree murder for the killing of Misha Pavelick at a graduation party at Knookimaw Campground on the May long weekend in 2006. He was convicted on the charge by a jury on Nov. 14, 2025.
He wasn’t charged until 2023, and though he was 34 at that time, he 17 at the time of Misha’s death, so he cannot be publicly named.
Misha was 19 years old when he died from a single stab wound to the chest.
The trial began Oct. 20, 2025, and the Crown rested its case on Nov. 4, while the defence chose to call no witnesses.
Lea Zohner, a supervisor with community corrections for Saskatchewan, confirmed in April that, because the offender is older than 20, he would serve his sentence in federal prison and would have almost no interaction with the youth system, even if he were given a youth sentence.
A youth sentence for second-degree murder is seven years — likely broken up as four years in custody and three served in the community. An adult sentence for a 16- or 17-year-old convicted of second-degree murder is an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for seven years.
What happened in the trial
Nearly three dozen people testified at the trial, including one of the responding RCMP officers, an RCMP forensics officer, the pathologist who did the autopsy on Misha and a DNA expert, as well as many people who were either at the party that night or encountered the accused afterwards.
According to the picture painted by the witnesses, the accused and a large group of uninvited people went out to the campground that night.
Two people in the group admitted to bringing knives with them.
There was either one long fight or two fights with a small break in between, depending on the witness telling the story.
In the first fight, witnesses said Misha approached a member of the uninvited group, Andrew Perkins, about Misha’s ex, who was Perkins’ new girlfriend. Witnesses said Misha hit Perkins with a glass bottle, and some said a fight ensued.
Some of the witnesses said the fight broke up and the groups separated momentarily, while others said it led directly into the second fight.
In the second fight, court heard from a number of witnesses that a handful of boys, including the accused, approached Misha and attacked him, eventually kicking and hitting him while he was on the ground.
The Crown asserted this was when Pavelick was stabbed.
Another fight between Scott Nelson and Derek Enns broke away, and many of the witnesses said that’s where their attention went. That fight ended, Nelson ran off and this is when the uninvited group ran back to their vehicles and left.
Nelson told court the accused told him he “got him”, referring to Misha.
At Regina Beach, where the group gathered a few minutes later, three people in a minivan encountered the accused. One person who was in the van said the accused told them “I stabbed a guy”, and the other said the accused told them “we stabbed a guy”.
Misha and his friends remained, some trying to give him CPR and put pressure on his wound, while waiting for police and EMS to arrive. Several said Misha died before first responders arrived.
As people in the uninvited group started to learn someone had died at the campground, those who were in the car with the accused told court the man accused of killing Misha became angry and upset and demanded the car be pulled over. They said he ran out of the car into the night, and they had to go collect him so they could leave.
The RCMP spoke to many witnesses at the party a number of times in the days after the killing and a number of times in the ensuing years. However, at least one witness confirmed she only came forward after listening to the RCMP’s podcast about the death in 2021.
The defence lawyer called into question many of the witnesses’ memories from so long ago, and the credibility of others like Scott Nelson. He argued to the jury that it was too difficult to know what really happened on that night beyond a reasonable doubt.
— with files from 980 CJME’s Lisa Schick and Gillian Massie
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