“Tell them that my father killed my brother and my sister. It was with those words that an 18-year-old girl stormed out of her home on Monday for help, said a neighbor who contacted emergency services. Her father, 45, was arrested by Laval police the same evening; he will be charged with two first degree murders.
An 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were found unresponsive in their residence in the Sainte-Dorothée district, in Laval. They were pronounced dead at the hospital.
According to the information sheet filed on Tuesday, the accused, Kamaljit Arora, also attempted to strangle a 45-year-old woman, actions for which he will be charged with assault.
The circumstances in which the two children died have not yet been revealed by the Laval police, but according to their immediate neighbor on Lauzon Street, the eldest sister of the family came out of the house in a panic to ask for ugly.
Annie Charpentier had just parked her car on the street shortly before 6 p.m. when the 18-year-old girl rushed towards her, shouting ” I need a phone ! (“I need a phone!”). The woman reports that she quickly picked up her cell phone and asked her what number she wanted to call. “911,” she said in English. Say my dad killed my brother and sister. »
The mother of the family was screaming and the young girl was panicked, said Mme Carpenter Tuesday.
The police arrived quickly on Lauzon Street, while she was still on the phone with the emergency services. “If I had been home earlier, maybe I might have acted…” the mother of the family lamented, shaking her head gently.
Kamaljit Arora was first to appear Tuesday followingnoon at the Laval courthouse, but his state of health did not allow it, Crown prosecutor Ms.e Karine Dalphond. The man is currently hospitalized and has not yet been able to speak to a lawyer. He is now scheduled to appear on Wednesday followingnoon to be formally charged with the three crimes. He had no criminal record.
Me Dalphond would not reveal whether the man had self-inflicted the injuries that led to his hospitalization. We will now have to wait for the continuation of the criminal proceedings to find out more.
The family of five was not well known in the neighborhood. Residents of the area explained that she had recently moved into the residence, a gray stone semi-detached surrounded by mature trees. Most admitted not knowing her.
But Annie Charpentier, who has lived on the adjoining lot for eight years — the two houses are separated by an asphalt driveway for a car — went to introduce herself to the two adults and three children when they moved in in July. A smiling, modern, pleasant family with beautiful children, described the young woman, visibly still shaken, confident that her own children had not slept a night.
They were not isolated people, she said: she saw parties there, and there were often relatives visiting, including grandparents.
crying children
“This morning, the number of children crying when they arrived at school was unimaginable,” said the school crossing guard posted at the corner of rue Lauzon, where the tragedy took place. André Mahilian has been a brigadier there for seven years, very close to the Père-Laporte elementary school, which the 11-year-old boy attended. His sister was studying at a secondary school in the area.
“It’s painful to come to class and not find your friend. And how do you explain to a child that a child has been killed? he asked rolling his eyes.
Armed with his yellow bib, the man said that some parents had finally turned back with their youngsters rather than dropping them off at school. He himself said he had tears in his eyes before the start of classes.
The school psychologist, Gladis Valencia, passed near the establishment as she quickly went to get something to eat, took a deep breath before speaking.
Since the beginning of the morning, she has been busy intervening with students with an entire crisis team deployed by the school service center to lend her a hand. “We try to keep it as less dramatic as possible, so that it doesn’t deteriorate,” she explained, saying she wanted to maintain an aspect of normality for the children while being on the lookout for signs indicating that some had need more help and support.
Children shed tears at school. “Even adults,” said the psychologist.
Late Tuesday morning, the security tape that surrounded the residence had been removed, and the command post, a police trailer truck, had left the premises. The mayor of Laval, Stéphane Boyer, went to meet the residents of the sector to reassure them.
“Sad”, “horrible”, “appalling”: these are some of the words used to describe the tragedy by residents of the area met near the residence of the Arora family.
“It’s a disaster,” dropped Jean Godbout in front of the house, expressing the wish that those who live in distress will seek help.
