A man will face a B.C. Supreme Court jury trial starting Oct. 6 for the 2024 murder of Alexander Lo, whose brother is charged with murder in .
The body of Alexander Lo, 31, was found in a home near Vancouver’s Knight Street and East 33rd Avenue around 1 a.m. Jan. 28, 2024, after police were called.
The BC Prosecution Service charged brother , 30, with eight counts of second-degree murder April 27 after a driver ran his car into a crowd at the Lapu Lapu Day block party shortly after 8 p.m. The festival was being held near Fraser Street on East 43rd Avenue.
Eleven people, aged five to 65, were killed.
In the earlier case, Dwight William Kematch, 40, was arrested in the East Vancouver house when Alexander Lo was discovered, police said.
A court information dated Jan. 28, 2024 shows Kematch was charged with second-degree murder.
He was initially ordered to stand trial on Oct. 23, 2024 after a not guilty plea, recorded Oct. 21, 2024.
The BC Prosecution Service confirmed to Glacier Media that an indictment was sworn in B.C. Supreme Court on Nov. 4, 2024.
Kematch’s next court appearance is on June 3 for a pretrial conference with pretrial applications starting Aug. 5, 2025.
Jury selection has been scheduled for Oct. 2, 2025, with the trial commencing Oct. 6. The trial is expected to take approximately four weeks.
In 2024, Kai-Ji Adam Lo launched a GoFundMe for his late brother's funeral costs.
"It pains me deeply to put these words down, but my brother has been taken from us in a senseless act of violence, something we never saw coming," the GoFundMe page reads.
Kai-Ji Adam Lo returns to court May 26.
With files from Alanna Kelly
