CP NewsAlert: Killer of Vancouver festival suspect’s brother calls it ‘ripple effect’

By Canadian Press on January 16, 2026.

VANCOUVER — The murderer of a young man whose brother was later arrested for the Lapu Lapu festival attack that killed 11 people last year says it was a “ripple effect” from his own crime.

Dwight Kematch, who has pleaded guilty to the January 2024 second-degree murder of Alexander Lo, told his B.C. Supreme Court sentencing hearing in Vancouver that what followed the killing was a “horrendous tragedy.”

The hearing is being attended virtually by Adam Kai-Ji Lo, who is charged with 11 counts of murder over the April 2025 festival attack.

More coming.

Brieanna Charlebois, The Canadian Press