MONTREAL - A Superior Court judge says he will rule in 2026 on whether to assign high-risk offender status to a Quebec man who killed two children and injured six others when he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023.

Justice Éric Downs made the comments Thursday at the Laval, Que., courthouse after he listened to final arguments from the prosecution and defence in the case of Pierre Ny St-Amand.

In April, Downs ruled that Ny St-Amand was not criminally responsible for the attack because he had likely been in psychosis when he crashed a bus into a daycare in Laval, killing a four-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl.

Now the judge has to decide whether to declare the man a high-risk offender, a designation sought by the Crown that would impose stricter rules on him while

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