Webb-Harris, her voice often cracking with emotion, said she uses a 10-point scale to determine brain trauma, explaining a four out of 10 shows a person\u2019s brain \u201chas developed in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a 10 out of 10,\u201d she said of the offender.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re in survival mode,\u201d Webb-Harris said of those experiencing the type of childhood trauma Nepoose went through.<\/p>\n
\u201cI call it caveman brain.\u201d<\/p>\n
Webb-Harris told Taylor her report was mostly based on hours of interviews with Nepoose as well as speaking to his sister.<\/p>\n
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A frame grab from Calgary Police body camera released as a court exhibit shows the arrest of Duane Arlen John Nepoose at the scene of a fatal crash on December 26, 2024.<\/p>\n
From that she learned he grew up in an environment that included physical and sexual abuse and neglect and intergenerational trauma that included both their parents surviving residential schooling.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was always being sexually assaulted and beaten,\u201d Webb-Harris said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn\u2019t recall living with his father,\u201d she told Taylor.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was told his father committed suicide when he was only a few months old.\u201d<\/p>\n
At an earlier court appearance Crown prosecutor Todd Buziak detailed Nepoose\u2019s crime spree that ended in the fatal crash, which also badly injured the dead girl\u2019s mother and older sister, as well as another motorist.<\/p>\n
Buziak said the HAWCS police helicopter tracked Nepoose as he sped along multiple roadways in the southern part of Calgary, at one point accelerating to approximately 170 km\/h.<\/p>\n
Video from HAWCS, played in court, captured Nepoose eventually heading northbound on Macleod Trail, running red lights at 109th Avenue and 99th Avenue, before striking the silver Pontiac Vibe being driven by Victoria\u2019s mother, Amanda Reitmeier.<\/p>\n
In sentencing submissions in April, Buziak suggested a prison term in the 9\u00bd- to 10\u00bd-year range would be appropriate in the circumstances in the case.<\/p>\n
Taylor suggested a sentence in the five-year, nine-month to seven-year, three-month range would be a fit punishment.<\/p>\n
After submissions, Nepoose addressed court.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to say that I\u2019m sorry to the family, sorry for taking away moments that should have been,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Justice Indra Maharaj will hand down his sentence at a later date.<\/p>\n