A Montreal teenager has been convicted of the first-degree murders of 22-year-old Jade Racette-Beaulieu and her grandmother, Huguette Maranda-Racette, in a brutal double killing inside their Pointe-Saint-Charles apartment in December 2022. The disturbing case has revealed an even darker history: the teenager had already been involved in another double homicide just months earlier.

The now 22-year-old accused showed little emotion as the jury delivered two guilty verdicts at the Montreal courthouse on Thursday. Because he was underage when the murders occurred, his identity remains protected by a publication ban.

After less than two days of deliberations, jurors accepted the prosecution’s argument that the teenager carried out the killings on behalf of Mahad Farah. The accused did not present a defence.

Prosecutors told the court that Jade had filed a pimping complaint against Farah in Ontario just weeks before her death. After learning that an arrest warrant had been issued against him, Farah allegedly wanted her silenced.

In December 2022, the teenager reportedly received instructions to lure Jade outside her apartment under the pretence of having a conversation. What followed was a deadly ambush. He shot Jade multiple times before pursuing her into the bedroom where her grandmother was sleeping. Huguette was also shot and killed, eliminating another potential witness, according to the Crown’s theory.

Investigators later found evidence linking the teenager to the crime scene, including DNA left behind after he injured himself on broken glass from a window. He fled to Toronto, and the murder weapon was never recovered. He was eventually arrested in November 2023.

This was not the teenager’s first murder conviction. In an earlier trial, he was found guilty of two additional premeditated murders involving 18-year-old Andrew Allan Anaba and a 17-year-old boy.

The two victims were shot and killed inside a vehicle in Montreal West on July 28, 2022. According to Journal De Quebec, the prosecution argued that the killings were connected to a dispute involving a car theft and a humiliating video posted online. The teenager allegedly lured both young men into an ambush as an act of revenge.

Following the most recent verdicts, prosecutors announced they would seek an adult sentence for the now 22-year-old accused.