A Calgary jury convicted Shaun Folk of second-degree murder in the 2023 death of Christopher Stevenson.

The jury's verdict is the finding. CBC News says a second-degree murder conviction comes with a life sentence, and the parole term is not set. CBC News and the Calgary Herald do not agree on how long the jury sat, where the body was burned, or when the sentencing hearing will be put on the calendar. El-Sayed's verdict is accessory after the fact, not murder.

CBC News reported that a jury found Shaun Folk guilty of second-degree murder in the 2023 death of Christopher Stevenson, and found Ali El-Sayed guilty of accessory after the fact to murder for his role in destroying evidence. The story was posted at 11:42 p.m. EDT on Oct. 26, 2026, and the page says it was last updated Oct. 27. CBC News reported Folk buried his head in his hands when the verdict was read, after about five hours of deliberations, and that Stevenson's mother sobbed in the gallery. CTV News, in a story published at 2:07 p.m. EDT on Oct. 27, reported that Shaun Alexander Folk, 47, was convicted of second-degree murder in Stevenson's death. The age is CTV News's. CBC News's verdict story does not print an age. CBC News's caption uses the name Shaun Alexander Folk. The Calgary Herald, in a story published Oct. 26 and updated the next day, reported jurors deliberated about six and a half hours on Monday and that the jury had 11 members after a 12th juror was dismissed that day because of sickness. Five hours in CBC News and about six and a half hours in the Herald are two accounts of the same deliberations.

CBC News reported that during the four-week trial jurors heard Folk arranged to meet Stevenson at his downtown condo on Aug. 24, 2023, that the two men were involved in a car-theft and re-vinning scheme, and that Stevenson owed Folk about $1,500. CBC News reported that once there, Folk beat Stevenson and then ordered that he be given a hotshot of fentanyl, that other people in the condo helped wrap the body in garbage bags and clean blood from the floors and walls, and that within a few hours El-Sayed arrived in a rented minivan. CBC News reported Folk and El-Sayed drove the body to a rural location in Rockyview County, the spelling CBC News used, and burned it in a large burn barrel. CBC News reported Folk recorded a cellphone video in which he could be heard saying, "barbeque, f--k you, buddy. How do you like that? Goof," and that Calgary Police Service investigators found the video. CBC News reported Folk was charged a year after the killing.

The Herald's account of the place and the cause is not the same. The Herald reported Stevenson went to Folk's East Village condo around 4 a.m. on Aug. 24, 2023, to discuss Folk's concern that Stevenson was messing up an auto-theft ring that changed vehicle identification numbers before the cars were resold. The Herald reported jurors found El-Sayed helped move the body from the apartment to an acreage near Balzac, where it was incinerated in a cement burn barrel. Downtown condo and East Village condo can be the same building. Rockyview County and an acreage near Balzac are the two place names. The Herald reported a third suspect, Kenedee Taylor, pleaded guilty to manslaughter. It reported she admitted preparing a hot shot of fentanyl in a syringe at Folk's request, that she was unable to inject it, and that another person in the condo completed the injection. It reported that in her testimony she said she had no idea what happened in the unit because she was high on fentanyl. The Herald reported Crown prosecutor Katherine Love told jurors she could not prove how Stevenson died, and that it was at Folk's hands, and that jurors accepted that argument. CBC News's verdict story says Folk beat Stevenson and ordered the hotshot. It does not name Taylor, and it does not report that the prosecutor said she could not prove the mechanism.

CBC News reported a second-degree murder conviction comes with a life sentence and no chance of parole for 10 to 25 years. It reported Court of King's Bench Justice Shane Parker will hear sentencing submissions later from defence lawyers Pawel Milczarek and Rahul Nanda and prosecutors Katherine Love and Donna Spaner. The Herald reported Folk will face an automatic life sentence when Justice Parker hears submissions on parole ineligibility, and that a date for those submissions will be set on Nov. 13. A later date, in CBC News, and a Nov. 13 setting date, in the Herald, are not the same schedule. The parole number inside that 10-to-25-year range is not chosen yet. CBC News reported that before the jurors left, Justice Parker thanked them and said, "You've made a significant contribution to the administration of justice in this province," and, "The system works much better when we have people in the community as part of our justice system." The jury's verdicts are the findings in this trial. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.