Judge Finds Man Guilty of Manslaughter in Fatal Vancouver Starbucks Stabbing, Rules Out Murder
A Vancouver judge has found Inderdeep Singh Gosal guilty of manslaughter in the 2023 deadly stabbing of a Vancouver man outside a Starbucks cafe, and acquitted Gosal of the second-degree murder charge he faced. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kathleen Ker handed down the verdict Sept. 2, finding that prosecutors hadn’t proven beyond a reasonable doubt [...]
TL;DR
- Inderdeep Singh Gosal was found guilty of manslaughter in the stabbing death of Paul Schmidt.
- Gosal was acquitted of the second-degree murder charge.
- The stabbing occurred outside a Starbucks in downtown Vancouver on March 26, 2023.
- The confrontation began when Schmidt asked Gosal to stop smoking near his daughter.