Warawa declared dangerous offender
Posted Oct 21, 2010 5:12 pm.
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The man who fired a stray bullet, hitting Brazilian exchange student Jose Neto in the head, has been declared a dangerous offender.
Roland Ashley Warawa will now be sent to jail for an indefinite period of time.
Neto was near the James Short Parkade in downtown Calgary with his girlfriend in September of 2008, when Warawa fired the shot at a drug dealer.
The bullet missed its target and hit Neto in the head, leaving him blind in both eyes.
The 32-year-old Warawa has been declared a career criminal with a long history of run-ins with the law.
In her dangerous offender decision, the judge said Roland Warawa exhibits the tendencies of a psychopath and his criminal patterns are well-entrenched and proven likely to continue.
At his sentencing hearing, Warawa apologized to his victims, their families and the general public and said he wanted to change to avoid possibly spending the rest of his life in prison.
But the judge decided she hasn’t seen any evidence that his promise has any substance.
