The sentencing hearing for a 66-year-old Creston man convicted of second degree murder is set for early September.
Mitchell McIntyre has plead guilty in the death of his neighbour.
Julia Howe was found on the bathroom floor of her Creston home in Feb 2022.
According to court records, RCMP originally believed the 56-year-old died from natural causes, but the doctor performing an autopsy two days later discovered a bullet in her head.
McIntyre was arrested six weeks later and has been in custody ever since.
The judge presiding over his trial in Kamloops heard several weeks of testimony before McIntyre’s admission of guilt.
Howe’s obituary said she was the mother of four children and had four grandchildren.
She was also a school bus driver survived by her father and four siblings at the time of her death.
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