Chilling surveillance video captured the moment a Canadian teenager dressed entirely in black fatally attacked an elderly woman while she was raking leaves outside her home.
Eleanor Doney, 83, was killed on May 25 outside her residence on Lynn Heights Drive in Pickering, Ontario, roughly 25 miles east of Toronto, after being stabbed by a 14-year-old boy.
The teen, whose name has not been released because Canadian law protects the identities of young offenders, appeared in the footage wearing a black mask, trench coat and gloves, according to the National Post.
His unusual outfit reportedly also featured oversized dress shoes, and he was carrying a soft-sided briefcase.
After walking past Doney, the boy set the briefcase down and appeared to speak with her for around two minutes, the outlet reported.
He then took a knife from the briefcase and stabbed Doney on the left side of her neck.
As Doney stumbled backward and attempted to make her way back toward her house, the teenager continued swinging at her before fleeing the scene.
A passerby later found Doney collapsed on the ground outside her home, and she was transported to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.
Eleanor Doney, 83, was stabbed to death by a 14-year-old boy last May as she raked leaves in her front yard outside her home in Pickering, about 25 miles east of Toronto
Doney’s husband, Bruce Doney, said that he moved into a long-term care home after her murder because she was her main caregiver
The stranger attempted to resuscitate Doney to no avail.
Further attempts at the hospital were also unsuccessful and she was declared dead around 4pm.
The teen boy pleaded guilty to first degree murder in April, according to CBC.
Peter Moreira, the Durham Regional Police Chief, called Doney’s death a ‘senseless murder’ that had devastated a family and shaken the city of Pickering.
‘The brutality and gratuitous nature of this crime—captured on video—is shocking, and it underscores the dangerous influence that online platforms can have on young people,’ Moreira wrote on X in April.
Durham Regional Police were the ones who obtained the footage that showed the moment Doney was murdered, according to the Toronto Sun.
Doney’s husband, Bruce Doney, told court that he and his wife had been together for 63 years. He said he had been forced to move into a long-term care home after her death.
‘With my many health problems which are age-related I am disabled and my wife was my supporter, my main caregiver,’ he said, per the National Post.
Police said that the teenage boy had been researching schedules for trains to leave Pickering (pictured) after the murder
Immediately after Doney was murdered, local police directed residents to stay indoors while he was located.
He was identified by school administrators, and his knife was found discarded in a wooded area.
When law enforcement looked through his home, they found a missing knife from a Cuisinart kitchen set that appeared to match the one discovered in the woods.
Police said that the teen had watched 15 videos last May 20 and 21 about how to tell whether one is a psychopath or a sociopath.
He also searched ‘how serial killers got away’ twice the following day and watched a four-hour long video covering the ‘most sadistic serial killers’ ever.
Another video that he watched was about how to apply maximum pressure when stabbing someone.
On the day that he murdered Doney, the teen looked up the schedule for trains leaving Pickering.
He was on social media just four minutes before he stopped in front of Doney’s house.
His browsing continued after returning home, where he watched Breaking Bad, Family Guy and Iron Man. This continued up until he was arrested by Canadian police.
He will be sentenced in July.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Erin Dann, the teen’s lawyer, for comment.
