Dad Who Killed Girl's Drug-dealing Boyfriend Says Family's Lives Ruined
Prince Albert Daily Herald (CN SN)
April 11, 2007
Prince Albert - A father who killed his 16-year-old drug-addicted daughter's boyfriend says he has nightmares about that fateful day four years ago.
In an interview at the Saskatchewan penitentiary, Kim Walker told the CTV News show The Verdict that he doesn't remember much the day he fired 10 shots at James Hayward, hitting him five times.
Walker was convicted last fall of second-degree murder for the 2003 shooting of Hayward and received a mandatory life sentence with no chance of parole for 10 years. He is appealing.
A jury heard how Walker's teenage daughter, Jadah, was living with Hayward in Yorkton in the months before the attack and using morphine with him.
"It was a culmination of so many different factors - the attempts we took, the steps we took to get her out of the drug house, our pleas to police were ignored,'' said Walker.
"I knew she would die ... she was being shot up with morphine and I know how deadly it is - all it would do is take a little overdose.''
Speaking slowly, his eyes welling with tears, Walker said he and his wife, Elizabeth, didn't realize at first that Jadah was on drugs. However, he said it wasn't long before they were constantly arguing with her.
"She was calling us by our first names. When the police came they said, 'Does she always treat you like this?' and we said, 'no, not always.' The police said we should practise tough love.''
However, he said Jadah left the house, going to a place "Hayward had set up.''
Walker and his wife would pick her up for lunch a few times a week and try to convince her to come home.
CTV said relatives of Hayward declined to be interviewed for the program.
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