{"id":154390,"date":"2018-02-26T04:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T09:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=154390"},"modified":"2018-02-26T04:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T09:22:38","slug":"police-treat-deaths-near-huntsville-ont-as-triple-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/26\/police-treat-deaths-near-huntsville-ont-as-triple-murder-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Police treat deaths near Huntsville, Ont. as triple murder suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ontario Provincial Police said the incident, which is being investigated as a triple-murder suicide, took place in Ryerson Township, Ont., a rural community about 300 kilometers north of Toronto. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RYERSON TOWNSHIP, Ont. – A man killed three members of the same family – two women and one man – at their central Ontario home before taking his own life, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n

Ontario Provincial Police said the incident, which is being investigated as a triple-murder suicide, took place in Ryerson Township, Ont., a rural community about 300 kilometers north of Toronto.<\/p>\n

OPP Det. Insp. Martin Graham said a friend had stopped by the home for a prearranged visit Friday night around 7:30 p.m. and \u201ccame across this tragic scene” and called 911 immediately.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fourth deceased in the residence is not related by blood to the three victims of the homicide, but is also a resident of Ryerson Township,” Graham said.<\/p>\n

He added that the three family members all lived in the house where they were found dead.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, police had blocked off access to the home as they continued their investigation.<\/p>\n

The home sits at the end of a rural road in the isolated community of just under 650 people.<\/p>\n

Graham, who’s leading the investigation, said police found guns at the home, but wouldn’t say whether any of the victims were shot, only that all four had signs of trauma.<\/p>\n

He said he wasn’t sure when the killings occurred.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re trying to narrow down the time that this incident took place,” Graham said. \u201cWe know it took place sometime between Wednesday evening and up to 7:30 p.m. on Friday.”<\/p>\n

Police have not released the names of the dead. Graham said police won’t be commenting on any potential cause of death until a post-mortem is complete, which might happen later this week.<\/p>\n

The township’s deputy reeve, Barbara Marlow, said she hadn’t heard of a tragedy of this scale happening in the area during the 45 years she’s lived there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s just a small community, so everybody is quite shocked,” she said.<\/p>\n

Cathy Still, the mayor of the nearby village of Burk’s Falls where Ryerson’s population does its socializing, said she too was surprised by the deaths.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is really strange. We’ve only had maybe four incidents in the last 60 years of anything involving shootings or guns, or anything like that.”<\/p>\n

Outside a Tim Hortons coffee shop in Burk’s Falls, Ahren Simmons spoke about the tragedy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a very low crime area, it’s frightening,” Simmons said.<\/p>\n

\u201cStuff does happen, but not often at all.”<\/p>\n

The last major incident he could remember was two years ago, when a woman was killed during a robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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