Hit Man in Former Air India Suspect's Murder Gets 15 Years for Unrelated B.C. Killing
Fox pleaded guilty to manslaughter after killing Chad Colivas during a break-in that targeted drugs, money and jewelry, court heard.
- On Wednesday, Justice Catherine Murray sentenced 25-year-old Tanner Fox to 15 years in prison for the 2022 killing of 41-year-old Chad Colivas in his Abbotsford home.
- Fox pleaded guilty to manslaughter after initially facing second-degree murder charges, shooting Colivas three times during a break-in where he and accomplice Laetitia Acera attempted to rob his nephew and mother at gunpoint.
- Family members including mother Penny Colivas, sister Tanis Colivas, and fiancée Vicki Sriratanakoul shared impact statements, with Tanis saying the grief "has changed every part of my life."
- Justice Murray labeled Fox a "cold-blooded murderer" with a "lengthy and serious criminal record," stating she doubted the sentence would meaningfully impact his rehabilitation prospects.
- This 15-year term runs concurrently with Fox's existing life sentence for the 2022 murder of Surrey businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik, making him ineligible for parole until July 2042.
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Times of IndiaMan serving life for Air India bombing suspect's murder gets 15 more years in Canada
A contract killer received an additional fifteen years for a fatal shooting. He is already serving a life term for murdering a bombing suspect. Police found Chad Colivas with gunshot wounds at his home. Tanner Fox pleaded guilty to manslaughter with a firearm in April. He was sentenced to life without parole for twenty years for another killing.
Tanner Fox gets 15 more years in Chad Colivas fatal shooting case
A Canadian court has handed Tanner Fox 15 additional years for the manslaughter of Chad Colivas in British Columbia. The fresh sentence deepens the punishment of the hitman already serving life for killing Ripudaman Singh Malik.
Hit man who killed former Air India suspect sentenced in unrelated Abbotsford homicide
A hit man who is already serving a life sentence for the 2022 murder of a former suspect in the Air India terrorist attack has been sentenced to another 15 years for an unrelated killing that took place less than four months earlier.
Ripudaman Singh Malik killer sentenced for another fatal shooting in 2022
Tanner Fox, a resident of Abbotsford in British Columbia, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for March 2022 murder while already behind bars for life without parole for his involvement, in the Malik murder in July 2022
Winnipeg Free Press
Hit man in former Air India suspect's murder gets 15 years for unrelated B.C. killing
ABBOTSFORD - A hit man who is already serving a life sentence for the 2022 murder of a former suspect in the Air India terrorist attack has been sentenced to another 15 years for an unrelated killing that took place less than four months earlier.
Ripudaman Singh Malik’s killer, Tanner Fox, sentenced in 2022 Abbotsford shooting
Indo-Canadian Voice Ripudaman Singh Malik’s killer, Tanner Fox, sentenced in 2022 Abbotsford shooting posted by: Rattan MallTANNER Fox, 25, who was sentenced to life without parole for 20 years in the July 14, 2022 shooting death of businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik, 75, in Surrey, was on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, sentenced to 15 years in prison with no credit for time served in relation to the fatal shooting of a 41-year-old Abbotsford man in M…
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