Jamie Felix is a killer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada who was convicted of five murders related to shooting at a rooming house
According to court documents Jamie Felix would go to a rooming house in the West Broadway area of Winnipeg where he would open fire killing Melelek Leseri Lesikel, 29, Dylan Maxwell Lavallee, 41, Shawn Marko, 56, and sisters Crystal Shannon Beardy, 34, and Stephanie Amanda Beardy, 33. Two of the victims would die at the scene, two more would die at the hospital and Shawn Marko would die eighteen months later from pneumonia which was related to being shot multiple times
Apparently in the days leading up to the murders Jamie Felix had been drinking and smoking crack at the rooming house which led to him being paranoid
Jamie Felix would be arrested, convicted of five counts of second degree murder and will be sentenced to life in prison at a later date. A second degree murder conviction in Canada is an automatic life sentence what needs to be determined at a future sentencing date is how long he must serve before being eligible for parole with the maximum being twenty five years
Jamie Felix Case
A Winnipeg man who fatally shot five people in a rooming house has been found guilty of five counts of second-degree murder.
A Court of King’s Bench jury came back with the verdict in the case of Jamie Felix just hours after being sequestered to deliberate Thursday afternoon.
Audible sighs were heard in the packed courtroom as the verdicts were read out. Felix showed no emotion.
He had pleaded not guilty to the 2023 killings that occurred at a rooming house in the West Broadway building that had basically degenerated into a drug den.
Court heard police were called to the multi-unit building early in the morning on Nov. 26, 2023, to find five people had been shot. Two victims were pronounced dead at the scene, and two others died in hospital.
Marko, the fifth victim, died last year after spending 18 months in hospital. Court heard from a medical expert that Marko died from pneumonia linked to being shot three times.
The jury heard conflicting theories about who pulled the trigger.
The Crown argued Felix was driven by paranoia after spending days drinking and smoking crack at the house.
Crown prosecutor Chantal Boutin told court Felix became uncomfortable at the home and believed people were acting strange. He tried to ask for more information from his father and brother, who were also in the suite, but received no answers, said Boutin.
Court heard Felix’s father and brother were associated with a gang that operated the drug den in the rooming house, but that Felix had no gang ties himself.
Felix’s brother provided the man with a bulletproof vest and a handgun, which led Felix to grow concerned he was being used as “muscle” because of his military background.
Accounts from those closest to Felix detailed a loving person who took pride in his military training and was in college to further his education. When Felix’s twin brother, Johnathen, died in a drug deal gone wrong, he turned to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain, Mary Felix said about her son.
Felix’s former girlfriend of three years testified that Felix had confessed to the killings and admitted that he tried to shoot himself with the same gun afterward, but there weren’t any bullets left.
Felix’s lawyer, however, pointed to Felix’s late father as the trigger man. Theodore Mariash suggested to the jury that Felix’s father was intent on robbing the suite and planned to set up his son to take the fall.
The trial heard that the father died in January.
