Family reacts after murderer, kidnapper receives life sentence
“Today was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to go to.”
Kayla Natomagan, her mother Erica Hennie and additional family members sat in Prince Albert’s Court of Queen’s Bench today, June 24 for the sentencing of the man who kidnapped her and shot her boyfriend twice in the chest more than a year ago.
Her kidnapper Jonas Budd pleaded guilty to second degree murder, kidnapping and break-and-entering. Budd was the focus of a manhunt in Feb. 2015 after he arrived at Hennie’s house and took Natomagan at gunpoint after shooting her 17-year-old boyfriend Dustin Bird.
Natomagan was found in Cranberry Portage, Manitoba after RCMP located the truck Budd was driving. The court heard Budd told her to get out of the car as they drove down a snowy road on the way to nearby Sturgeon Landing.