Retrial in case of gang shooting that killed Vancouver teen scheduled for May, 2025

A man accused in a 2018 shooting that killed an innocent 15-year-old boy on a busy strip of Broadway in Vancouver will be retried next May.

The BC Prosecution Service confirms Kane Carter’s second trial will begin on May 20, 2025.

In September, a B.C. Supreme Court Judge declared a mistrial in the case of Kane Carter.

Twenty-six-year-old Carter was arrested in Ontario two years ago in connection with the double murder that killed Alfred Wong.

Police believed Carter, who was involved in gang life, was out to shoot a rival who was having dinner at a restaurant near Broadway and Ontario Street in Mount Pleasant on Jan. 13, 2018.

The jury returned on Sept. 10, 2024, saying it was deadlocked after five days of deliberations in Carter’s trial.

He was charged with the second-degree murders of 15-year-old Alfred Wong and 23-year-old Kevin Whiteside who were both killed in an exchange of gunfire.

The Crown told the jury that Carter was protecting a gang associate at a nearby restaurant when he began shooting, killing both Whiteside and Wong.

Carter’s defence lawyer, Richard Fowler, told jurors there were significant gaps in time in the Crown’s theory of what happened that day.

In a statement to The Leader Spirit on Sept. 11, the prosecution service confirmed that the Crown would be conducting a retrial.

The trial is expected to continue until mid-July.