A British Columbia Supreme Court justice has convicted Inderdeep Singh Gosal of manslaughter instead of second-degree murder for the 2023 stabbing of Paul Schmidt, 37, outside a Vancouver Starbucks, after the defense argued the killing was an “overreaction due to mental illness” rather than a planned intent to kill.

Schmidt, a father of three, had his three-year-old daughter in a stroller when he confronted Gosal, 34, for smoking a joint on the patio in front of his child.

Gosal ended up stabbing him six times in the neck and torso.

Extremely graphic footage of the 28-second attack was posted on social media.

Justice Kathleen Ker called the attack “shocking, violent and traumatic.” She said Schmidt yelled, advanced, and threw Gosal to the ground and had the upper hand until Gosal pulled a knife from his pocket and stabbed Schmidt in the neck and torso.

Gosal told a responding officer, “I did it. He came after me.”

The killer later testified he has schizophrenia, had been off his medication for about three months, and thought a knife he claimed to find in an alley was a “sign from God” to defend himself.

The Crown said he actually bought the knife, inflated how much he had been drinking, and was neither a credible nor reliable witness.

Defense lawyer Gloria Ng said her client’s unmedicated psychosis blurred his grasp of consequences and that manslaughter, not murder, was the right verdict.

The court agreed with the defense and convicted him of manslaughter.

Sentencing has not been set.

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