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<\/p>\nOttawa police say they are investigating a murder-suicide that has left two children and their father dead.<\/p>\n
In a news release, Ottawa police said officers conducting a wellness check around 10 a.m. Monday found the bodies of two boys, ages 7 and 12, inside a home on Mandevilla Crescent in the south Ottawa neighbourhood of Findlay Creek.<\/p>\n
Police said they’re still in the process of dealing with the family and are not releasing any names.<\/p>\n
The man’s body was found inside a vehicle that was reported on fire earlier Monday morning at a carpool lot north of Kemptville, Ont., about 55 kilometres south of Ottawa.<\/p>\n
The man was divorced from the children’s mother, who will be interviewed, Supt. Jamie Dunlop\u00a0said during a news conference outside Ottawa Police Service headquarters on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
A person other than the boys’ mother asked police to perform a wellness check when no one answered the door at the home in Findlay Creek, Dunlop said.<\/p>\n
“Obviously it\u2019s a very tragic incident for the families, the friends, neighbours,”\u00a0he said. “Certainly when children are involved, it\u2019s extra difficult to understand.”<\/p>\n
There are other children “associated” with the family, but Dunlop said police are “confident that they’re all in good care at the moment.”<\/p>\n
On Monday afternoon, Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe took to social media to extend his condolences.<\/p>\n
“There are no words to describe this immeasurable loss, my thoughts are with everyone grieving today, especially the family and their close friends,” he wrote in a post.<\/p>\n
A 3rd scene<\/p>\n
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were at the carpool scene as well the scene of a fire at a business in a commercial plaza on County Road 2 in Iroquois, Ont., about 80 kilometres south of Ottawa.<\/p>\n
The fire was reported at 2 a.m. There were no injuries, OPP said.<\/p>\n
Photos and videos from the scene show heavy damage to the end unit of a commercial building with residential units above, including a pile of broken masonry. Police tape surrounds the damaged area.<\/p>\n
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A business in Iroquois, Ont., was damaged by fire Monday. Police believe that scene is connected to the murder-suicide. (Arthur White-Crummey\/CBC)<\/p>\n
J.G. Menard lives in the building and said he was woken up by a loud bang.<\/p>\n
“It was just a big explosion,” he said.<\/p>\n
Both the carpool scene and the building scene are believed to be connected to the investigation, which Ottawa police are calling “ongoing and complex.”<\/p>\n
On Mandevilla Crescent, where the boys’ bodies were found, area resident Desire Omofoma said he returned home from work to find the police scene and soon learned what happened.<\/p>\n
“It didn’t feel real, you know, to be so close to home,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa police say they are investigating a murder-suicide that has left two children and their father dead. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38513,38401,38402,61,8077,38514],"class_list":["post-109653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-findlay-creek","tag-jamie-dunlop","tag-mandevilla-crescent","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-police","tag-wellness-check"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}