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CBC
10-05-2025
- CBC
Judge delivers guilty verdict in Tatlow Park caretaker murder trial
A judge has delivered a guilty verdict in the killing of a park caretaker in Kitsilano over three years ago. On Friday, Brent White was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Justis Daniel. As Karin Larsen tells us, friends of the popular caretaker sobbed as the judge delivered her decision.
CBC
10-05-2025
- CBC
Man found guilty of 2nd-degree murder in Tatlow Park caretaker killing
The man accused in the gruesome killing of popular Kitsilano park caretaker Justis Daniel has been found guilty of second-degree murder in B.C. Supreme Court. Brent White, 54, will be sentenced at a later date. A dozen of Daniel's friends in attendance quietly clapped, hugged and sobbed as Justice Miriam A. Maisonville delivered her verdict. The 77-year-old was found dead in a bloody scene inside his Tatlow Park caretaker's cottage on Dec. 10, 2021. He had been stabbed 42 times in the head, face and neck and had suffered blunt force trauma to the head. White's defence never contested that he killed Daniel, but argued he had done it in self-defence. During the trial, White testified that Daniel suddenly became violent, bit White's neck and drank his blood as the two men sat on a couch in the cottage watching CNN. He said Daniel threw a knife at him and claimed to be Iblis, the Islamic equivalent of the devil. He said he defended himself using a knife to "recompense" Daniel for his actions. But Maisonville said White's testimony was inconsistent, neither credible nor reliable, and "a product of hindsight at best of a bizarre nature." She said White's assertion that Daniel — a frail 77-year-old who weighed just 139 pounds — could have attacked White in the way he described was not reasonable. She said there was no evidence that White had a mental condition that could raise a reasonable doubt as to his intent to kill, intent being a necessary finding for guilt in second-degree murder. White covered up Daniel's body and blood stains after the murder and took Daniel's cellphone and key, and locked the cottage door behind him when he left. He later disposed of the key and phone. He was arrested three months after the murder after being identified on video that police gathered from the Tatlow Park area. Traces of Daniel's blood were found on a folding knife and sandals located in the van that White lived in.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Government revokes visas from UH Manoa international students
HONOLULU (KHON2) — In recent weeks, the federal government has revoked thousands of international student visas across the country including several from the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa according to UH Chief Global Officer Brent White. 'It certainly is a concern among our international students,' White said. 'We have less than five, so a few students in the UH system. And only a couple of those as current students.' Man arrested, urns returned in Moiliili grave theft investigation That's out of the 1,700 international students enrolled at UH. International students must have a student visa to attend school in the U.S., with their student records and status kept in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS. According to White, visa termination usually happens when a student doesn't take a full course load as required or if they withdraw from their program. 'But in the cases we're seeing the government go in and terminate SEVIS records for often unknown reasons,' he explained. 'But sometimes traffic violations parking tickets. Other types of very minor arrests that would not typically result in a revocation of a student visa, much less the termination of the record.'Many students at UH said it's unfair. 'It kind of almost angers me and it's really confusing,' student Johnathan Escasa said. Fellow UH student Tai Lee shared similar sentiments. 'It's very upsetting that students who had the ability to come here are getting their ability now revoked,' Lee said. White said they are doing everything in their power to support the students whose visas have been revoked. Download the free KHON2 app for iOS or Android to stay informed on the latest news 'We meet with them personally, understand their particular circumstance and conduct them with counsel in town to represent them as appropriate,' White said. Several lawsuits have been filed on the mainland with courts ordering the government to reinstate visas or student status. For now, White said the federal government has paused further visa revocations. But Congresswoman Jill Tokuda said it's already creating unease among international students. 'When I asked them do you feel safe coming home or coming to the United States to study, no one said, 'Yes,'' Tokuda explained. 'And every student I spoke to from another country at first were very hesitant to reply but they said right now they don't think its safe for them to come to the United States. And that's a really sad statement.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
