Jamie Felix Murder Case: Victims, Trial, and Verdict

The Jamie Felix murder case ended on March 5, 2026, when a Manitoba jury convicted the Winnipeg man on five counts of second-degree murder for a shooting at a West Broadway rooming house that killed five people. Felix, 32 at the time of his arrest, faces a mandatory life sentence. Sentencing is still pending.¹

What Happened at the Rooming House

Winnipeg police responded to a report of multiple gunshot victims at a rooming house in the 100 block of Langside Street at roughly 4:05 a.m. on November 26, 2023.² Officers found five people with gunshot wounds inside the multi-unit building, described during the trial as a “crack shack.” Two victims died at the scene, two more died in hospital, and a fifth survived initially before dying in June 2025 after eighteen months of hospitalization.¹

The Crown told jurors Felix rapidly fired nine shots from a handgun, striking four victims in the head and shooting the fifth, Shawn Marko, three times in the chest.³ According to trial testimony, Felix had been staying at the house for several days, drinking and smoking crack cocaine with little sleep. His father Randolph “Chummy” Fagnan, his brother Kyle Houle, and his sister Savannah Fagnan were also present.⁴

The Five Victims

Crystal Shannon Beardy, 34, and Stephanie Amanda Beardy, 33 — sisters and mothers, originally from the Lake St. Martin First Nation. Their family had been displaced by flooding in 2011. Their mother, Beverley Beardy, told reporters after the verdict she had now lost four daughters in total.⁵
Melelek Leseri Lesikel, 29, originally from Kenya, who had moved to Canada to attend school with the goal of becoming a welder.⁶
Dylan Maxwell Lavallee, 41.
Shawn Marko, 56, who survived the initial shooting and underwent eleven surgeries before dying on June 1, 2025, after contracting pneumonia for the third time in hospital.⁷

Arrest and Charges

Winnipeg police arrested Felix by December 1, 2023, initially charging him with four counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder relating to Marko, who was then still alive.⁸ After Marko’s death in June 2025, the Crown reviewed the evidence and the attempted murder charge was upgraded, leaving five counts of second-degree murder at trial.⁷

Who Jamie Felix Is

Felix served eleven years in the Canadian Armed Forces, from July 2010 to August 2021, as a corporal and infantry soldier with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, a reserve unit. He had no overseas deployments. Before enlisting, he participated in Bold Eagle, a military training program for Indigenous youth.⁹ After leaving the military, he attended Red River College.

His twin brother Johnathen Felix was shot to death in 2013 in what his former girlfriend described at trial as a drug deal gone wrong arranged by their father. Felix struggled with drug and alcohol addiction afterward and had a seizure disorder for which he took medication doctors warned him not to mix with drugs or alcohol.¹⁰ His only prior record was a 2021 assault causing bodily harm, for which he received a two-year suspended sentence in March 2023 that included a weapons prohibition.⁹

The Trial

The trial opened on February 17, 2026, before Justice Alain G. J. Huberdeau in Manitoba’s Court of King’s Bench. Crown prosecutors Georgia Couturier and Chantal Boutin led the case; defense lawyers Theodore Mariash and Jason Malloy represented Felix.¹¹

The Crown’s Case

Prosecutors argued Felix consciously chose to carry and fire the gun, even if his father influenced him. They presented surveillance footage showing Felix entering and leaving the building, fingerprint evidence linking him to the rooming house, and testimony from his former girlfriend. She told the jury Felix arrived at his grandmother’s home the next day “crying and shaking” and said “I killed people.” He also told her he had tried to shoot himself afterward but the gun was empty.⁴

Eyewitness Xena Hall, 28, who was dating Fagnan at the time, testified she was inside the house and saw Felix enter the room “holding his hand up and all of a sudden… bullets firing.” She said she watched Felix shoot people “in the heads.” Hall also told the jury that after she fled the scene, Fagnan and his daughter Savannah took her to Fagnan’s apartment, tied her to a chair, beat her, and threatened her to keep quiet.¹²

Felix’s mother, Mary Felix, testified she contacted police after receiving cryptic Facebook Messenger notes from her son and gave officers screenshots because she believed he could be involved.¹³

The Defense’s Case

Mariash argued Felix was a “malleable and vulnerable patsy” set up by his father. According to the defense, Fagnan orchestrated the killings as part of a robbery, provided Felix with the gun and a bulletproof vest through Kyle Houle, forced him to fire a round in a back lane as a signal to the actual shooters, and then led him back into the scene to make it look like he was responsible.¹⁴ Mariash contended that bullet trajectory evidence pointed to two shooters and that the Crown had failed to establish any motive for Felix to act alone.¹⁵

Fagnan could not testify or face charges of his own. He died on January 7, 2026, weeks before the trial began.¹⁶ His mother described him as a longtime gang member with drug-trade ties who “had gang ties into his 50s.”¹⁷

The Verdict

Justice Huberdeau instructed the jury on the morning of March 5, 2026. Jurors returned shortly before 5:00 p.m. that day with guilty verdicts on all five counts of second-degree murder.¹ When the verdict was read, Felix punched a sheriff’s officer before being subdued and led from the courtroom in handcuffs.¹⁸

Beverley Beardy told reporters after the verdict: “He’s alive, and I had to bury my daughters. But they were sisters in life, sisters in death, sisters forever.” Roberta Owen, the sisters’ aunt, said the family hoped for the maximum sentence and said Felix showed “no remorse” during the trial. Melissa Marko, Shawn Marko’s sister, said she felt relieved that justice was served.¹

What Sentencing Looks Like

Under Canadian law, second-degree murder carries a mandatory life sentence. The only open question at sentencing is parole ineligibility, which can range from ten to twenty-five years.¹⁹ Justice Huberdeau invited the jurors to recommend a period. Some declined; others suggested ten, fifteen, and twenty-five years. Those recommendations do not bind the judge.¹

Felix was scheduled to return to court on May 13, 2026. As of the most recent reporting, a formal sentencing date had not been publicly confirmed and no appeal had been filed.¹⁹

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