Man serving time for Surrey murder pleads guilty to Abbotsford killing

A man who was initially charged with second-degree murder in the 2022 death of Chad Colivas of Abbotsford has now pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.

The sentencing hearing for Tanner Fox, 25, has been scheduled for June 19 in B.C. Supreme Court in Abbotsford.

Colivas, 41, was fatally shot on March 21, 2022 at a home in the 3500 block of Latimer Street in Abbotsford.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announced on July 27, 2022 that Fox and a woman – Laetitia Acera – had been charged in relation to the killing.

Acera was charged with manslaughter, but that was stayed in April 2025, when she pleaded guilty to break-and-enter and was sentenced to a 14-month jail term and two years of probation.

Few details have been released about Colivas’s killing, including the circumstances of the shooting and the connection between him, Acera and Fox.

Fox is currently serving a life sentence with no parole eligibility for 20 years after pleading guilty in January 2025 to second-degree murder for a Surrey killing.

Fox and another man, Jose Lopez, shot and killed Surrey businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik on July 14, 2022 outside a business complex in Newton.

Neither Fox nor Lopez has revealed who hired them to carry out the contract killing.

Malik was acquitted in 2005 of the 1985 Air India Bombing – which killed 329 people – following a lengthy trial in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.

He was found not guilty of eight criminal counts, including bomb-related and first-degree murder charges.

Fox was also sentenced in July 2020 for stabbing a 17-year-old male during an altercation in a parking lot in Abbotsford.

He received an additional 119 days in jail, on top of time served, and two years of probation.

He also has prior convictions for robbery, aggravated assault, obstructing a peace officer, and breaching his conditions.

– with files from Tom Zytaruk