'Hey buddy' were victim's last words to his 15-year-old murderer

It was two days before Christmas — 2:30 a.m. — and Madeleine Leclair’s tinnitus was acting up. So bad was the constant noise in her ears, Leclair felt sick to her stomach.
Knowing a neighbour loved to stay up late, Leclair and her friend, Keith Fitzsimmons, bundled up against the December cold in Vanier and stepped outside, hoping to borrow some Gravol from the neighbour to ease the nausea.
A few doors away, someone else was outside, too. He was just 15, hopped up on alcohol an