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A 17-year-old boy was out on bail, awaiting sentencing for two home invasions, when he was arrested and charged in connection with Saskatoon’s 15th homicide of 2019.

The boy — one of three teens charged with second-degree murder after a 15-year-old boy was fatally shot on Nov. 7 — pleaded guilty to breaking into two homes to commit robbery in April and received an 18-month youth sentence in Saskatoon provincial court on Monday.

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His identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

According to an agreed statement of facts, the boy was driving around with three friends before breaking into a home on Grey Avenue in the Forest Grove neighbourhood and then, just minutes later, a home on Pohorecky Cove in the Evergreen neighbourhood.

Court heard the Grey Avenue residents chased the teen, who was dressed in black and carrying a tire iron, with a bat.

During the second break-in, the teen smashed a back window and swung a tire iron at the homeowner, Crown prosecutor Victoria Kindrachuk said. The man threw a dog dish out the broken window to keep the intruder from getting inside.