Man who killed UBC Okanagan security guard gets 15 years, as judge highlights drug-induced psychosis

Brady Strachan · CBC News

· Posted: May 14, 2025 4:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

A B.C. Supreme Court justice has sentenced a Kelowna antheral to 15 years successful situation for sidesplitting a pistillate information defender connected UBC's Okanagan field successful 2022.

Dante Ognibenne-Hebbourn, 24, pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter connected Tuesday for sidesplitting 24-year-old Harmandeep Kaur erstwhile she was moving connected field during an aboriginal greeting shift. 

The tribunal heard details of the attack, which happened successful 3 aggravated acts of unit implicit a 10-minute period. The accused kicked Kaur astir 2 twelve times successful the caput portion she was lying connected the ground. 

The justice said Ognibenne-Hebbourn had a agelong past of intelligence wellness issues and was successful a drug-induced psychosis erstwhile helium killed Kaur.

The justice said the sidesplitting is highly unsettling due to the fact that it was "random" and "senseless," and called it different illustration of utmost unit the courts are seeing by idiosyncratic successful cause psychosis oregon with a agelong past of intelligence wellness challenges. 

Members of Kaur's household person said she came to Canada from India successful 2015 and was moving astatine the assemblage to rise wealth to spell backmost to school to go a paramedic.

She received her imperishable residency conscionable weeks earlier she died, successful February 2022.

Several members of Kaur's family were successful the courtroom assemblage during the hearing.

A unfortunate interaction connection from her mother described Kaur arsenic having "a axenic heart, a beardown tone and endless emotion for her family. She was a hard-working, loving daughter."

"She came to Canada with dreams, not lone for us, but for her family," the connection read.

Her parent wrote astir the grief her household has suffered since her daughter's death, and asked the tribunal to for a condemnation to serve as a deterrent truthful that "no different household has to acquisition what we are going through."

"Every time since her death, we person lived with unbearable grief.  There is nary bid successful our home, lone soundlessness and sorrow," work the statement.

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