A Brampton man has been sentenced to life for his role in the September 2018 deaths of two men who were killed with the same gun.
In February, a jury convicted Patrick Doyle, 30, of manslaughter for supplying the gun that killed Cliff Correia, 27, in a taxicab ambush on Sept. 2, 2018, and first-degree murder for later using the same gun to fatally shoot Correia’s killer, Derrick McKeown, 33.
Delivering Doyle’s sentence Tuesday, Superior Court Justice Cynthia Petersen explained that Correia was “shot repeatedly at close range” by McKeown in an “unprovoked act of extreme violence motivated, by Mr. McKeown’s obsessive jealousy” over a woman he considered to be his girlfriend.
Doyle not only supplied Mr. McKeown with the loaded .40-caliber Smith and Wesson used to shoot Correia, “but he also did so in circumstances that made his actions egregiously irresponsible,” Petersen said.
A woman who had been with Correia in the taxi was also shot and injured in the attack shortly after midnight on Vodden Street in Brampton.
The morning after the ambush, court heard that Doyle asked McKeown to meet with him to return the gun, then killed him with it “to prevent disclosure of his own implication as an aid to the shooting of Correia,” the judge said.
Doyle then disposed of the gun after killing McKeown, and the weapon was never recovered, Petersen said.
For his conviction of first-degree murder in McKeown’s killing, Peterson sentenced Doyle to a mandatory life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.
For manslaughter in Correia’s death, the judge sentenced Doyle to eight years, to be served concurrently.
Doyle has an extensive criminal record and by age 27, he had 34 convictions, 10 of which involved violence or threats of violence, court heard.
Before Petersen rendered her sentence, the court heard victim impact statements from relatives of both victims. Cliff Correia’s mother, Gabi Correia, told court Doyle’s sentence is “not the end of my grief, because that will never end.”
“I stop to think of your parents and the pain they have to live with,” she said, “but it will never compare to my pain because my Cliff is gone forever and your parents still have you.”
Crown attorney Veronica Puls read a statement from McKeown’s father, Peter McKeown.
“I have become withdrawn from all events and social gatherings,” he wrote. “You have ruined so many lives by your careless actions.”
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