Diplomat’s teen son returns to Canada

A teenager caught up in a double shooting in Florida that left his older brother dead has been quietly deported to Canada following a remarkable standoff between U.S. federal authorities and the state judge who sentenced him, The Canadian Press has learned.

American immigration agents escorted Marc Wabafiyebazu, 16, from Miami to Montreal where he was reunited with his mother, Roxanne Dubé, a former senior diplomat who’s now Global Affairs’ director general of the Canadian Foreign Service Institute based in Ottawa.

Now16, Wabafiyebazu is back home in Ottawa studying for his high school equivalency and reconnecting with family and friends as he relaunches his life shattered by the gunfire in March last year that killed Jean Wabafiyebazu, 18, and another teen.

Although authorities never accused the younger sibling of shooting anyone, he nevertheless found himself facing a minimum 40-year prison sentence on charges of felony firstdegree murder. Instead, in a plea deal rarely seen before, Wabafiyebazu pleaded no contest in February to reduced charges of felony thirddegree murder.