Two charged in Stony Mountain prison killing

Two men, including one serving time for first-degree murder, have been charged after a 27-year-old man was killed at Stony Mountain prison Wednesday night.

The inmate, from Wasagamack, was stabbed and died at the scene, Stonewall RCMP said in a news release Sunday. Mounties were sent there at 10:10 p.m.

Evander Brightnose, 26, of Cross Lake and Theodore Anderson, 22, of Winnipeg have been charged with second-degree murder.

RCMP continue to investigate the slaying.

Brightnose, who also uses or used the last name Brightnose-Baker, was convicted of first-degree murder alongside a co-accused in December 2022 for the October 2020 killing of Mohamed Mohiadin Ahmed, 29.

Brightnose and the co-accused, Jesse Daher, were sentenced in May 2023. Brightnose was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 14 years. Daher, then 30, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 20 years.

Court heard Daher targeted Ahmed for death after labelling him a “skinner” and a “rat.” The victim, his killers and many of the witnesses who testified at trial were heavy methamphetamine users.

Ahmed was killed at a drug “flophouse” on Royse Avenue. Colin Leiterman, who lived at the Fort Garry home and testified at trial, said masked men armed with a sawed-off shotgun and a collapsible baton forced their way into the house, took Ahmed to the bathroom and assaulted him.

Daher and Brightnose forced Ahmed into a bathtub and beat and tortured him as he begged for his life, King’s Bench Justice Ken Champagne said. An autopsy identified more than 40 injuries to the victim’s head and body.

“The assault was vicious and sustained,” Champagne said in May 2023. “It took time to inflict all those injuries. (Ahmed) was made to suffer.”

Leiterman disposed of Ahmed’s body in the Red River a day after the homicide. He was charged with being an accessory to murder but later pleaded guilty to interfering with human remains. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail in 2021.

Brightnose has fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and persistent depressive disorder, his lawyer at the time, Laura Robinson, told court after the slaying. She described Brightnose as a “follower” and said he looked up to Daher like a brother.

A man with the same first and last name as Anderson was charged with five weapons offences in 2022. He was also charged with single counts of possession of cocaine for the purpose of tracking and possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime under $5,000 stemming from the same incident.

The Winnipeg Police Service said at the time that officers were sent to an apartment building on the 400 block of Kennedy Street early on July 27 of that year after they were told a woman was going to shoot someone. A man fled to a balcony and onto the roof of the building, the WPS said at the time, adding he was found to have a .22-calibre handgun and crack cocaine worth an estimated $480 on him.

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