An ambush in a Saskatoon apartment two years ago went violently and fatally sideways when two men burst out of a bedroom with zip ties and duct tape.

They both had guns. But so did Brandon Baxandall, 29, whom they had lured to the apartment on the pretext of paying off a debt.

Details of what happened on May 19, 2022, at 710 Melrose Ave. are contained in an agreed statement of facts that had been subject to a court-ordered publication ban recently lifted by Court of King's Bench Justice Mona Dove…