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Man pleads guilty to manslaughter in fatal Metro Vancouver school stabbing

Amancharged in thefatalstabbingof 18-year-old Mehakpreet Sethi, who was found dead outside of Surrey's Tamanawis SecondarySchoolin 2022, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and now awaits sentencing.

The victim, Mehakpreet Sethi, was found dead at a Surrey school on Nov. 22, 2022

Surrey RCMP officers are pictured collecting evidence
RCMP officers are pictured collecting evidence at the scene where an 18-year-old was fatally stabbed at Tamanawis Secondary School in Surrey on Nov. 22, 2022. The man charged with the youth's death pleaded guilty to manslaughter on Wednesday. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

Amancharged in thefatalstabbingof an 18-year-old in the parking lot of aMetroVancouverhighschooltwo years ago has pleadedguiltytomanslaughter.

Homicide investigators say theman, who cannot be identified because he was 17 at the time of the attack, made his pleaon Wednesday in provincial court in Surrey,B.C.

Thestabbinghappened on Nov. 22, 2022, at Surrey's Tamanawis SecondarySchool, where police found 18-year-old Mehakpreet Sethi dead from his injuries.

Homicide investigators took charge of the case and police identified and arrested the suspect.

Themanwas charged with second-degree murder in November 2023.

Police say a sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 9, 2025.