Richard Jonathan Edwin has pleaded not guilty to murder in random shooting deaths of two people in April 2022

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Two separate daylight shootings in the span of two days in April 2022. Two terrifying, random slayings of strangers on Toronto streets.

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Now, more than three years later, the admitted shooter Richard Jonathan Edwin has pleaded not guilty to murder and instead is asking a court to find him not criminally responsible due to schizophrenia, a mental illness he was first diagnosed with in 2010 when he was 28 years old.

According to testimony by Dr. Stephanie Penney, a forensic psychologist called by his lawyers, Edwin said he hadn’t been taking his anti-psychotic medication for years, but had no symptoms until right before the shootings, which she called “atypical” and a “rather abrupt re-emergence of symptoms.”

She testified it was more likely that he was symptomatic, but it hadn’t come to the attention of mental-health professionals.

Duelling psychiatrists are expected to testify in the coming weeks before Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly with opposing views on whether the killer had the mental capacity at the time to know........

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