A jury has convicted David Sadler of first-degree murder in the February 2009 shooting death of James Ward Erickson.
Sadler was sentenced to an automatic life sentence with no hope of parole for 25 years on Sunday.
Erickson, 25, was gunned down inside an apartment complex in the 13300-block of 105A Avenue in Surrey.
It had been a deadly 24 hours on the Lower Mainland with three fatal shootings.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team identified “persons of interest” in Ericsson’s murder soon afterwards, but there was not enough evidence to get charges approved.
“In May 2013, the IHIT Cold Case Team took conduct of this investigation and began a thorough and meticulous file review,” Staff Sgt. Jennifer Pound said Monday. “Six months into the file review a suspect, identified as David Sadler, was arrested and sufficient evidence was obtained to meet the threshold for charge approval.”
She said “it is extremely rewarding for the investigators to see justice served as a result of their commitment and perseverance and there is no greater testament to this than a conviction for first-degree murder.”
