Police still investigating 2021 college student stabbing in Kitchener
Posted Sep 24, 2025 03:51:16 PM.
Last Updated Sep 24, 2025 03:57:07 PM.
Officials are still looking for answers several years after police found the body of an 18-year-old in Kitchener with multiple stab wounds.
Joshua Bennett, from Etobicoke, was living in Waterloo as a student at Conestoga College. The 18-year-old was found suffering from stab wounds at 4:30 a.m. near a trail in the area of Paulander Drive on Sept. 24, 2021.
“He had his whole life ahead of him, instead, his life was taken far too soon,” Inspector Kyle Lambert said in a video released on social media.
Prior to the incident, police said they traced Bennett’s movements to 60 Paulander Dr., the day before his death, around 6:30 p.m.
Just an hour later, an unidentified male wearing a long dark coat left the area near 40 Paulander Dr. Then Bennett and two males followed him in the same direction.
Last year police offered a $50,000 reward to information leading to the arrests of the people responsible for Bennett’s death, which is still available.
Bennett’s mother, Felisha Bennett, is pleading that people come forward.
“As parents in the community, we know that it takes a village to raise a child, and while Joshua may not be here to speak for himself anymore, I’m asking that same village to come together and speak for him to catch a killer … It is not too late to speak up because no community is safe while this person is still out there.”
She says she, along with police, know that someone out there, knows something.
“I’m asking you as a hurting mother to do the right thing.”
Between September 23 and September 24, 2021, Joshua Bennett, 18, was fatally stabbed in the area of Paulander Drive in Kitchener.
— Waterloo Regional Police (@WRPSToday) September 24, 2024
A reward of up to $50,000 is being offered for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for the stabbing.https://t.co/Bc8KNahtsi pic.twitter.com/u2y5nuZmlB
