Brett Davidson had just finished walking his dog in Calgary and was t exting with his new girlfriend when he ran into Cory Miklic, a violent criminal who launched a “brutal and vicious attack,” stabbing him more than a dozen times.

On Tuesday, 44-year-old Miklic pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in front of Davidson’s family, who watched on from the gallery at the Court of King’s Bench. They listened as prosecutor Darren Maloney detailed the crime, reading from an agreed statement of facts.

Davidson, 39, was a retired navy veteran who’d just moved to Calgary and was living in an Inglewood condo building on Ninth Avenue.

On the afternoon of Aug. 27, 2022, Davidson was in the hallway of his building when he was confronted by Miklic, whose mother lived down the hall. The two men ha

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