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Man accused of killing two children at Quebec daycare to stand trial in April 2025

LAVAL, Que. — The man accused of murdering two children and injuring six others after a city bus crashed into a Montreal-area daycare is scheduled to stand trial over five weeks beginning in April 2025.
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A woman lights a candle at a memorial outside a church close to the site of a daycare centre in Laval, Que, Thursday, February 9, 2023, where a bus crashed into the building killing two children. The man accused of murdering two children and injuring six others after a city bus crashed into Montreal-area daycare is scheduled to stand trial over five weeks beginning April 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

LAVAL, Que. — The man accused of murdering two children and injuring six others after a city bus crashed into a Montreal-area daycare is scheduled to stand trial over five weeks beginning in April 2025.

Superior Court Justice Lyne Décarie today set Pierre Ny St-Amand's trial for next April 7 to May 9, but suggested the dates could be moved forward if the schedules of the lawyers in the case open up.

St-Amand was arrested after a transit bus crashed into the front of a daycare in Laval, Que., on Feb. 8, 2023, killing two young children, aged five and four, and injuring six others.

In March a Quebec court judge ruled after a preliminary inquiry that there was sufficient evidence to send the case to trial. 

The former Laval transit driver will stand trial on two charges of first-degree murder and seven other charges, including attempted murder and aggravated assault.

The case is scheduled to return to court on June 11.

This report by The 91Ô­´´ Press was first published May 9, 2024.

The 91Ô­´´ Press

Note to readers: This is a corrected story. A previous version said a judge ruled in February that the case would be sent to trial. In fact, the judge made that ruling in March.