The Surrey man charged in connection with the April 2024 stabbing death of 26-year-old Kulwinder Singh Sohi in White Rock has elected to be tried in New Westminster Supreme Court by a judge and jury.
Dimitri Nelson Hyacinth was charged with second-degree murder on May 3, 2024, after Sohi was stabbed on White Rock’s waterfront promenade on the night of April 23, 2024 — the second of two stabbings in the city that week.
Hyacinth is also facing aggravated assault charges in connection with a stabbing attack on Jatinder Singh, 28, that occurred on April 21, 2024, also on the seaside city’s promenade.
Singh, who had only been in Canada for a few months, survived the attack, with a serious neck wound that was treated in hospital.
A new indictment charging Hyacinth with both offences — second-degree murder and aggravated assault — was preferred, and as a result, he is now charged under the new indictment, an email from BC Prosecution Service noted.
Hyacinth is no longer charged with these offences separately as both are now combined.
The first court appearance on the new file was on Wednesday (June 24), when Hyacinth elected to be tried in Supreme Court by a judge and jury, the email said.
The former “fix a date” appearance — to fix a date for trial — was adjourned from Thursday (June 25) to July 9 at 2 p.m.