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When Dale Ahpay shot Devon Cyr in the face with a sawed-off shotgun, he was feeling a rage that stemmed from his childhood sexual abuse at an Indian residential school, his lawyer says.

Defence lawyer George Combe said his client’s moral culpability is “exceedingly high” for trying to kill Cyr, who lost his upper lip and nose in the June 22, 2015, shooting behind a house in the 300 block of Avenue R South in Saskatoon.

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Ahpay was convicted of attempted murder and 11 weapons offences in December following a trial in October.

Queen’s Bench Justice Richard Danyliuk found Ahpay was chased by three men after flashing his gun at a man he felt had threatened him. Cyr had a gun and fired the first shot, so Ahpay fired back twice, chased him into a yard and fired a third shot “execution-style.”

At a sentencing hearing on Friday, Crown prosecutor Will Collins said Ahpay was in a street gang and carried a concealed, prohibited weapon while walking around a residential area to sell methamphetamine.