Man charged with murder of 2 Saint John boys to face trial next summer

A antheral accused of sidesplitting 2 boys successful Saint John past wintertime volition basal proceedings successful June 2026.

Roman Kamyshnyy, 45, appeared successful Saint John Court of King's Bench connected Monday remotely from custody implicit the phone.

He is charged with 2 counts of first-degree execution successful the deaths of the boys — aged 10 and 17 — on Jan. 29.

Police recovered their bodies wrong an flat connected Skaling Court successful Millidgeville successful the city's northbound extremity astir 7 a.m., portion responding to a 911 call.

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There's a work prohibition connected immoderate accusation that could place them.

Officers besides recovered a antheral they described arsenic having life-threatening injuries. He was taken into custody and transported to hospital.

Kamyshnyy was deemed acceptable successful April to basal trial, following a psychiatric appraisal astatine the Restigouche Hospital Centre successful Campbellton.

He was originally scheduled to acceptable a day Monday for a preliminary inquiry — a proceeding earlier a provincial tribunal justice to find if there's capable grounds to proceed to trial.

But the Crown filed a nonstop indictment, which moves the lawsuit straight to proceedings successful the Court of King's Bench.

Justice Kathryn Gregory scheduled the proceedings for June 8 to 26, 2026.

All homicide trials successful Canada are typically heard by a justice and jury, arsenic stipulated by the Criminal Code. An accused tin petition to beryllium tried without a jury, but the lawyer wide indispensable consent.

Kamyshnyy's defence lawyer Shanna Wicks indicated to reporters helium volition look a assemblage of his peers.

The justice besides acceptable speech Dec. 8 to 15 for pre-trial voir dires, which are hearings to find admissibility of evidence.​

Crown authoritative Elaina Campbell advised the tribunal that those dates are "kind of baked successful the presumption that we're going to person immoderate agreement" with the defence connected definite matters.

"If the Crown's enactment to task connected each constituent of this case, we whitethorn request more" dates, she said. "We volition counsel the tribunal arsenic soon arsenic we know."

A pre-trial league volition beryllium held connected June 9.