EDMONTON — An Alberta judge has convicted a man of manslaughter in the 2023 killing of a woman who was stabbed in the head with a steak knife.
Blake Bird was initially charged with second-degree murder after the woman was discovered on a couch with the knife in her head outside a home on the Paul Band First Nation.
The woman, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, died in hospital three days later.
Court of King's Bench Justice Kent Teskey says he had doubts as to whether Bird had the intent to commit murder.
Court heard the woman had been drinking with Bird and another woman earlier in the day and that Bird confessed the killing to police and his family.
The judge's written decision says Bird told police he was blackout drunk and accidentally stabbed the woman.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 16, 2025.
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