The northern Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie was in shock Tuesday after what the mayor called an “inexplicable” outburst of violence that left five people - including three children and a shooter - dead and police investigating a case of intimate partner violence.
Police said a shooter went to two homes on Monday night, gunning down multiple victims, before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. The shootings were “the result of intimate partner violence,” they said.
Police said the shootings were not random acts of violence and there was no ongoing risk to public safety. They also said they would not be releasing the names of the victims or the accused because it was an intimate partner violence case.Officers first discovered the body of a 41-year-old, dead from a gunshot wound, around 10:20 p.m. after someone called to report a break-and-enter at a home, the force said.
They said officers also found the 44-year-old shooter, who appeared to have died after a self-inflicted gunshot wound. “The entire Algoma District School Board community is heartbroken,” the board's director of education, Lucia Reece, wrote in a statement. “We want the family of the victims to know that they can lean on their neighbours, they can lean on their community members,” he said.
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