In 2022, Tanner Fox and Jose Lopez entered a guilty plea to the second-degree murder of Ripudaman Singh Malik, a Sikh merchant.
On the eve of their first-degree murder trial, they filed their pleas before the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Then, in a startling turn of events, Fox and Lopez got into a heated fistfight in the New Westminster courthouse.
They “punched and clawed at each other” for a few minutes before sheriffs broke up the fight, putting them on the ground, handcuffing them, and escorting them away, according to the Vancouver Sun.
The public gallery was emptied by other sheriffs.
On October 31, the matter is scheduled to return to court for a sentencing hearing. They will be automatically sentenced to life in prison for their second-degree murder pleas; the only question is how long they must serve before they can petition for parole, according to a Canadian public broadcaster.
On the morning of July 14, 2022, Malik was shot multiple times in his vehicle outside his family’s Surrey, British Columbia, business. Nearby, police discovered a burned-out car.
In 2005, the businessman was found not guilty of carrying out a horrific double bombing:
All 329 persons on board, the majority of whom were Canadian nationals visiting relatives in India, perished when Air India flight 182 from Canada to India blew up on June 23, 1985, off the coast of Ireland.
