Christmas killing: some reactions
CTV notes the similarities among the three domestic murder-suicides here recently, but doesn’t discuss the key factor: in all three cases, from what we see in the media, the marriage was ending and the woman was preparing to leave the man.
Radio-Canada talked to some people in Coaticook who knew Astrid Declerck, the woman killed on Christmas day by her partner, who then killed himself. The couple had lived there for a few years. TVA says she was planning to move back to France.
curious 13:31 on 2019-12-29 Permalink
The presence of firearms in the home is also probably a contributing factor.
Kate 14:12 on 2019-12-29 Permalink
The most recent incident was reported as involving firearms, but no report from the Tétreaultville killings in October, in which Jonathan Pomares apparenty killed his two kids then himself, allowing his wife to find all three bodies, mentions guns. Nor do reports from the December 11 killings allegedly by Nabil Yssaad, who later suicided by jump, mention guns.
I’m not implying anything about guns, simply reporting what I’ve seen in the media.