A Portuguese immigrant ordered deported six years ago for his role in the killing of a McMaster University mechanical engineering student has won a chance to restore his status as a permanent resident. Article content

Luis Carlos Rebelo was initially convicted of manslaughter in 2017 and sentenced to over eight years in prison for his role in the group attack on Tyler Johnson, who died of a gunshot wound inflicted by another man. Johnson was gunned down in Hamilton during an early-morning altercation on Nov. 30, 2013, in front of Vida La Pita, a restaurant on King Street West at Caroline, just west of Hess Village. Article content

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Police described Johnson’s murder as a “co-ordinated attack carried out by a number of suspects.”

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