Sentencing hearing to begin for man in fatal 2019 shooting outside Walmart in Alberta

A sentencing hearing is to begin today for a man who fatally shot a shopper outside a Walmart store in central Alberta.

Chase Freed, who is 20, pleaded guilty on Monday to the second-degree murder of Jim Williams in Red Deer in December 2019.

RCMP said at the time that a masked man armed with a semi-automatic rifle shot Williams, who was 69, in front of his wife in the store's parking lot during an attempted robbery.

Williams died later in hospital.