A total of 14 people were selected for the jury: 12 jurors and two alternates.
Volpi, 18, was stabbed to death around 3:30 a.m. on June 7, 2014, outside Les Suites Hotel on Besserer Street, where students from three Catholic high schools were gathered for an after-prom party, witnesses told CBC Ottawa at the time.
Brandon Volpi, 18, died from his injuries after a stabbing outside a downtown Ottawa hotel early in the morning hours of June 7, 2014. (Photo courtesy of Brandon Volpi's family)
Hackett, who was 18 at the time and is now 21, was arrested nearly a month later in Toronto on a Canada-wide warrant and charged with second-degree murder.
Hackett had attended St. Pius X High School while Volpi was a student at St. Patrick's High School. Students from both schools, as well as St. Joseph High School, were at the after-prom party, witnesses told CBC Ottawa at the time.
