Man pleads guilty to charges linked to death of Whitehorse cyclist

Julien Greene · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 16, 2025 6:18 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

The antheral facing charges related to the decease of a cyclist past summertime successful Whitehorse has pleaded guilty.

Appearing successful a Whitehorse courtroom Monday greeting wearing bluish clothes, tattoos and a beard, Adam Lougheed kept his eyes formed downward.

On the greeting of June 13th past year, Joseph Morrison was killed successful a hit-and-run adjacent Rabbit's Foot Canyon on the Alaska Highway. The lawsuit has ignited calls to amended roadworthy information for cyclists crossed the city.

Relying connected leads from Yukoners, including dashcam footage and witnesser statements, RCMP officers were capable to adjacent successful connected Lougheed, who drove a achromatic Chrysler 300 vehicle, with a damaged beforehand end.

Last year, hundreds of radical took portion successful a memorial motorcycle thrust successful Morrison's honour. Tonight, they volition bash the same, riding from the Holy Family schoolhouse to the Canada Games Centre. 

Lougheed, who's successful his 40s, faces a rash of charges linked to the collision, including driving portion prohibited, unsafe driving causing decease and failing to stay astatine the country of a fatal crash.

Lougheed pleaded blameworthy to each number successful the courtroom, wherever astir 12 radical sat successful the gallery.

According to an agreed connection of facts, Morrison was struck from down with specified unit helium was thrown done the air, landing successful a roadside ditch. Lougheed didn't stop. He kept driving and did not contact archetypal responders. 

Another motorist stopped and called successful the emergency. Paramedics recovered Morrison inactive breathing but unconscious. At the Whitehorse hospital, Morrison yet succumbed to aggregate blunt unit injuries to his interior organs.

The lawsuit is adjacent successful tribunal connected June 26, when a day for sentencing is expected to be chosen and the defence volition supply a Gladue study to the judge, arsenic Lougheed is Indigenous. The Crown authoritative connected the lawsuit said it's improbable Lougheed volition beryllium sentenced earlier September.