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Toronto Sun
19-06-2025
- Toronto Sun
HUNTER: Low-rent killer sneered at family 'at least I'm going home'
Get the latest from Brad Hunter straight to your inbox KILLER: Adam Drake was convicted of committing two separate murders. SALTWIRE Killer Adam Drake is the kind of slimeball too stupid to look a gift horse in the mouth. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. 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Create Account At his recent Halifax murder trial, it wasn't as if the justice system didn't move heaven and earth to ensure the beefy Drake, 34, received a fair reckoning. Drake had been convicted of first-degree murder in the targeted shooting death of Tyler Keizer, 22, in 2016 as part of a bitter blood feud between two rival crime families in the Atlantic port city. Keizer allegedly took a bullet as part of a settling of accounts between Halifax's version of the Hatfields and McCoys, the Melvins and Marriotts. For decades, the two clans have battled it out with bullets over the dope trade. MURDERED: Tyler Keizer, 22. SALTWIRE Murders, kidnappings and shootouts have marked their reign. One member from each clan has been designated a dangerous offender. Now, in the spring of 2025, Drake was also on trial for a second-degree murder charge in the 2022 stabbing death of local rapper Pat Stay. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The court took staggering precautions to ensure there was no taint to Drake's trial in Stay's death. By the time matters proceeded, he had already been convicted of first-degree murder in the Keizer case. Among the precautions: The jury was never to see Drake in handcuffs or a prison jumper; instead, he was outfitted in a suit and sat with his defence team. Each day, he was given time to pretty himself. What kind of guy is Drake? When he was convicted of murdering Keizer last November, the thug simply could not help himself. He turned around and faced Keizer's family. PAT STAY: Murdered in 2022. SALTWIRE Drake sneered: 'At least I'm going home someday.' And when the judge attempted to read the verdict in the Keizer case, well, Drake was having none of it. He tried to leave the courtroom, shouting: 'I ain't going to listen to this anymore. I know who did it and I'm innocent.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. During the Stay trial, the dead man's friends and family claimed the convicted killer made inappropriate gestures to them when the jury was absent. The motive for Stay's brutal murder around 12:36 a.m. on Sept. 4, 2022, at the Yacht Club Social was an innocuous Facebook post. Drake told one witness that after Stay was stabbed, he had 'accomplished his goal.' Prosecutors claim that Drake commented on a video posted by Stay about 18 weeks before the murder. The killer commented: 'Csnt [sic] wait to give u a big hug.' The Crown argued the comment was an 'implied threat.' Read More This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Despite the court's goodwill to even scumbags like Drake, his lawyers complained about the presence of a woman named Laura Lee Jennex. Her son, John Newcombe, went down in a hail of bullets outside a suburban watering hole in June 2012. A tattoo artist, Newcombe was also an aspiring hip-hop artist. His murder is officially in the books as unsolved. Jennex believes Drake killed her boy and has been vocal about her suspicions, and has faithfully attended both trials. In the end, the courtesies did not matter. Adam Drake was sentenced to life in prison for Keizer's 'execution-style' murder. He must serve 25 years in the slammer before he can apply for parole. He has yet to be sentenced for murdering Pat Stay. But since the Supreme Court of Canada torpedoed sentence stacking, we can safely assume that Drake gets a free pass on that. And as he yelled in court, he will be 'going home someday.' It's a long way off, but we should be worried about that. bhunter@ @HunterTOSun World NHL Toronto & GTA MMA Editorial Cartoons
CTV News
19-06-2025
- CTV News
Adam Drake found guilty of second-degree murder
Atlantic Watch Adam Drake has been found guilty of the stabbing death of Pat Stay at a Halifax nightclub in 2022.
CTV News
19-06-2025
- CTV News
‘It's unacceptable': Adam Drake's defence lawyer blocked from leaving court, followed
The defence lawyer for the man accused of killing battle rapper Pat Stay says he was blocked from leaving the parking lot of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Dartmouth and subsequently followed. Michael Lacy told Justice Scott Norton about the incident before the judge delivered his final instructions to the jury in Adam Drake's second-degree murder trial on Tuesday. Lacy said justice system participants deserve to do their jobs 'without being harassed, intimidated, physically accosted, followed away from the courthouse.' Lacy acknowledged the need for defence lawyers to have 'thick skin,' but said people are not entitled to 'physically intimidate counsel, whether it's the Crown of defence counsel, to get in their way and impede them from leaving, following them after they leave the courthouse.' 'This is the kind of thing that's happened over the last two days in this trial,' he said. 'Not once in the 28 years that I have practised, have I been subjected to that conduct and I watched Ms. (Jennifer) MacDonald be subjected to that conduct.' After eventually leaving the courthouse on Monday, Lacy said he was followed, and that fellow defence lawyer Jennifer McDonald was behind the 'thug' who was following him, calling the person 'one of the thugs from the mob of the misinformed.' He said there was video of that person 'aggressively driving' with no licence plate, following them and circling in a parking lot they ended up in, to the point where police were called. Lacy said he wanted to make it part of the court record, but it didn't impact his ability to defend Drake. He said he didn't want to become a complainant for the purpose of doing his job, but he did want to ensure the jurors weren't impacted and that they didn't see or read about what happened. 'It's unacceptable, it shouldn't happen,' Lacy said. Ultimately, after learning through video surveillance footage that jurors were not present, he decided not to ask that the judge's instructions to the jury reflect the incidents. Drake is accused of fatally stabbing Stay at a Halifax nightclub on Sept. 4, 2022. He has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder. The jury began deliberations Tuesday afternoon following a six-week trial. For more Nova Scotia news, visit our dedicated provincial page
CTV News
18-06-2025
- CTV News
Adam Drake found guilty of second-degree murder in Pat Stay's death
A 12-person jury has found Adam Drake guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Dartmouth battle rapper Pat Stay. It took the jury less than 12 hours to reach the verdict. Stay was fatally stabbed at the Yacht Club Social in Halifax at about 12:35 a.m. on Sept. 4, 2022, after walking to the VIP area in the back of the club. Drake was arrested on Sept. 10, 2022. He was initially charged with first-degree murder, but the charge was later changed to second-degree murder. More to come... For more Nova Scotia news, visit our dedicated provincial page
CBC
18-06-2025
- CBC
Adam Drake guilty of murder in fatal stabbing of battle rapper Pat Stay
A Nova Scotia jury has found a 34-year-old man guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of battle rapper Pat Stay, a 36-year-old father of two who was fatally stabbed 2½ years ago at a downtown Halifax nightclub. The verdict was delivered just before 1:30 p.m. today in the case of Adam Drake following a trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court that started a month ago. Jurors began their deliberations Tuesday afternoon and were sequestered overnight. Stay's family members gasped in relief and cried in the courtroom. Drake turned to them and said, "Sorry, they got it wrong, you don't got justice." The conviction carries with it an automatic life sentence. Parole eligibility can range from 10 to 25 years and will be set by Justice Scott Norton at sentencing. Drake is already serving a life sentence for first-degree murder in the 2016 shooting death of Tyler Keizer, 22. However, the jury in the Stay trial was not told of the conviction in order to preserve Drake's right to a fair trial. A key piece of evidence at the trial in Stay's death was grainy black and white surveillance video from inside the Yacht Club Social that. It shows Stay, with his back to the camera, in an altercation with someone. As Stay turns, he wipes blood from chest, is punched and then falls. He gets back to his feet and stumbles out of the camera's view, dying a short time later in a Halifax hospital. Jury begins deliberations in Adam Drake trial 19 hours ago Duration 2:57 The Crown argued last week Drake is the only person who could have done the stabbing, based on tracing the steps of each person near Stay and using the process of elimination. The defence urged the jury to disregard the video and find Drake not guilty. The trial in Stay's death has been emotionally charged, with numerous people attending and tensions spilling outside the courtroom several times. In the final days, supporters of Stay confronted Drake's lawyers more than once outside the courthouse. Sheriffs reprimanded people in the public gallery for making loud comments during defence closing submissions Monday, and lawyer Michael Lacy was subsequently blocked by a man on a motorcycle as he tried to drive out of the parking lot. The jury was not told that Drake had already been convicted of first-degree murder in Keizer's death, with details of that trial kept under publication ban. The ban lifted Tuesday when the jury was sequestered. Drake was charged with first-degree murder in 2019 in Keizer's death. The charge was withdrawn by the Crown in 2021, with a prosecutor telling the court, without elaboration, that there was no longer a reasonable prospect of conviction. That changed a month after Stay was killed, with police resurrecting the charge against Drake for Keizer's killing. He went on trial in April 2024, with a judge finding him guilty in October.
