Calgary teen admits to murdering 16-year-old over Instagram feud and expensive hoodie

Meghan Grant · CBC News

· Posted: May 01, 2025 2:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

A Calgary teen admitted to murdering a 16-year-old lad implicit an net feud and an costly sweatshirt. 

Dean Visser was fatally stabbed successful June 2024.

His slayer can't beryllium named due to the fact that helium was nether the property of 18 astatine the clip of the crime. CBC News is calling him SK.

SK was 2 months past his 17th day astatine the clip of the attack.

Originally charged with first-degree murder, SK pleaded blameworthy to second-degree execution pursuing plea negotiations betwixt defence lawyer Rebecca Snukal and authoritative Darren Maloney. 

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Court of King's Bench Justice Lisa Silver volition perceive sentencing arguments astatine a aboriginal date. 

The maximum condemnation for a younker convicted of second-degree execution is 4 years successful custody and 3 years nether assemblage supervision. 

Details of the execution travel from an agreed connection of facts filed arsenic portion of SK's blameworthy plea. 

Pair 'harboured animosity'

Court heard that successful 2024, Visser and SK "harboured animosity" toward each different and had exchanged heated messages connected Instagram. 

On June 24, 2024, Visser and his woman were walking on a thoroughfare successful the city's southeast. They had plans to conscionable up with friends. 

Visser had 2 costly hooded sweatshirts from the Bathing Ape brand, known arsenic BAPEs. He wore 1 of the sweatshirts and carried the other. 

During the walk, SK observed the mates and began pursuing them for 2 oregon 3 blocks. 

'Who are you?' 

With his hood up, SK ran up down the mates with a weapon successful manus and stabbed Visser.

During the attack, Visser shouted "who are you?"

SK replied: "Give maine that BAPE." 

Visser said "you tin person the BAPE" and handed the sweatshirt implicit to his attacker. 

SK ran from the country with the BAPE successful his arms. 

Visser's woman and different witnesser called 911. First responders arrived rapidly astatine the country and took him to the Children's hospital. 

'I blacked out'

Less than 2 hours later, Visser was dead. 

In the meantime, SK had returned home. He ditched immoderate of his covering successful an alley en route. 

SK's parent called her son's probation serviceman and told him he'd been attacked by Visser. 

Despite the call, SK was arrested by constabulary astatine his home. He initially told investigators helium and Visser had arranged a gathering to settee their feud and said helium acted successful self-defence. 

Once constabulary confronted SK with information camera footage, helium changed his story. 

He told constabulary helium spotted SK connected the street, rushed to drawback up and stabbed him retired of choler due to the fact that of their feud. 

"I blacked out. I saw him, saw rage and conscionable went forward," helium told police.