A jury has been selected for the second-degree murder trial of Devontay Hackett, accused in the June 2014 killing of 18-year-old Brandon Volpi.

A total of 14 people were selected for the jury: 12 jurors and two alternates.

Brandon Volpi, 18, died from his injuries after a stabbing outside a downtown Ottawa hotel early in the morning hours of June 7, 2014. (Photo courtesy of Brandon Volpi's family) Volpi, 18, was stabbed to death around 3:30 a.m. on June 7, 2014, outside Les Suites Hotel on Besserer Street, where students from three Catholic high schools were gathered for an after-prom party, witnesses told CBC Ottawa at the time.

Hackett, who was 18 at the time and is now 21, was arrested nearly a month later in Toronto on a Canada-wide warrant and charged with second-degree murder.

Hackett had attended St. Pius X High School while Volpi was a student at St. Patrick's High School. Students from both schools, as well as St. Joseph High School, were at the after-prom party, witnesses told CBC Ottawa at the time.