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    Two Children Found Dead In Apartment After Investigators Connect A Woman Found Seriously Injured On The Street With A Man Found Behaving Erratically

    https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/201...n-custody.html



    Two children found dead in southeast Edmonton, homicide detectives investigating
    JURIS GRANEY Updated: December 6, 2018



    Police investigate near an apartment at 79 Avenue and 71 Street where two children were found dead on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, in Edmonton. GREG SOUTHAM / POSTMEDIA


    Neighbours are in shock as they try to process the news that homicide detectives are investigating the suspicious deaths of two children at a southeast Edmonton apartment.

    In an emailed statement late Thursday, police said the kids were found in an apartment at Allen Manor at 7920 71 Street in the King Edward Park neighbourhood the day prior.

    Forensic investigators were on scene all day Thursday combing not only the basement apartment but dumpsters outside in the alley for evidence.

    Aaron Stewart, who lives across from apartments, said he was astonished at the large police presence he saw from his balcony.


    ?I?ve never seen so many police ? this whole place was lit up,? he said.

    Police said it all started at around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday when officers went to the area for a report of a woman who had been assaulted.

    Officers found a woman in distress who had been seriously injured.

    About three hours later, police were called to a garage break-in a few blocks away, at 73 Street and 80 Avenue, and found a man who was reportedly acting erratically.

    Officers determined that the man was a suspect in the earlier assault of the woman and arrested him.

    Further investigations led police back to the apartment where the kids were found dead.


    Police investigate near an apartment at 79 avenue and 71 Street where two children were found dead. GREG SOUTHAM / POSTMEDIA

    Despite the entire apartment complex being cordoned off with crime tape and police cruisers stationed on two sides of the building Thursday, residents were allowed to come and go.

    An upstairs neighbour said a man and a woman in the basement apartment had been arguing and yelling at each other on and off for about three days prior to the grisly discovery.

    Cristian Tobar, who has lived at the address for about a year, said the woman and her daughter moved in a couple of months ago. The woman?s grandmother also lived there, he said.

    The young girl was about five or six years old, he said.

    The first Tobar knew of the deaths was when police knocked on his door and asked if he had heard anything.

    He told them he had heard yelling coming from his downstairs neighbours apartment and from in the hallway at around 2 a.m. but he thought nothing of it because it had happened so often.

    ?Everybody heard the yelling, people on the top floor would have heard the yelling,? Tobar said.

    ?It makes me sick because I have kids, too ? sick to the stomach. I thought you only see this stuff in the movies. It?s just unreal.

    ?It?s pretty sad. When I heard there were kids involved ? I just can?t stomach it.?

    Stewart said he, too, heard the yelling and screaming from the apartment the previous morning.

    ?I never thought it would be that serious,? he said.

    ?It?s just brutal.?

    Police are holding a media availability Friday morning to release further information about the case.





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    Sisters killed in Edmonton apartment were both younger than four

    Ashton Brian Lafleche ordered by court five weeks ago to have no contact with girls' mother
    CBC News ? Posted: Dec 07, 2018 8:27 AM


    Tamara Petawaysin and Ashton Brian Lafleche pose together in a photograph she posted on her Facebook page in November 2017. (Facebook)



    A little girl who was killed along with her sister this week in their mother's south-side apartment didn't live long enough to see her first Christmas.

    A priest who knows the family told CBC News on Friday that one of the girls was seven months old when she died. Her sister was three years old.

    The two dead children were found together Wednesday in a storage room, their bodies covered by what police described "a pile of household items."


    A 29-year-old man who was the father of the younger girl has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder. Ashton Brian Lafleche has also been charged with assault causing bodily harm against the children's mother.

    Court documents identify the two children as Mackenzie Petawaysin and Mary Lafleche Petawaysin, and their mother as Tamara Petawaysin.

    She and Lafleche were in a relationship, police said Friday, but he did not live with her in the apartment where the children's bodies were found.


    A memorial for the two sisters was growing Friday outside the apartment building where their bodies were found. (H?loise Rodriguez-Qizilbash/Radio-Canada)


    Lafleche pleaded guilty in Stony Plain court on Oct. 31 to assaulting Petawaysin. The assault happened in mid-September. He also pleaded guilty to failing to comply with a probation order, and was fined $200 and placed on probation for 12 months.

    Under the terms of his probation, Lafleche was ordered to have no contact with Petawaysin.

    On Nov. 30, after pleading guilty to a breach of recognizance, he was sentenced to 20 days in jail. It's not clear why he was not in jail at the time of the offences.

    Acting Staff Sgt. Terrie Affolder of the Edmonton police homicide section confirmed the charges at a news conference Friday at police headquarters.

    She called the deaths "senseless."

    "Our sincere condolences go out to the family and friends impacted by this tragedy."

    Two children found dead in southeast Edmonton apartment suite
    Autopsies were scheduled for Friday morning. Police said results will most likely be available by Monday.

    While police did not release the names of the children or their mother, CBC News identified them through court documents.

    Lafleche appeared briefly in Edmonton provincial court on Friday by closed-circuit TV. The case was put over for two weeks. He is scheduled to be back in court on Dec. 21.

    Woman in distress found

    The apartment where the bodies were discovered is in Allen Manor at 7920 71st St., in the King Edward Park neighbourhood.

    Officers were initially called to the area around 5:30 p.m. MT on Wednesday and found a woman in distress who had suffered serious injuries.

    "Information was that a female was being chased by a male outside, and that she appeared to have been assaulted," Affolder said.



    Warning: this video contains disturbing details of two kids found dead in Edmonton apartment

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    Acting Staff Sgt. Terrie Affolder of the Edmonton police homicide section, describes details leading to homicide charges against a 29-year-old man in the deaths of two young children. 2:36
    After interviewing the woman, police learned the name of a suspect and were told that two children were involved.

    Officers returned to the woman's rental suite but were unable to locate the children, Affolder said.

    "In the early stages of the investigation, we did not know where the children were," she said.

    About three hours later, another call to police reported an "an unclothed male" acting erratically. He had broken into a garage near 73rd Street and 80th Avenue.

    A woman who spoke to CBC News said she heard someone in her garage on Wednesday and went out to look.

    The woman, who asked not to be identified, said she encountered a naked man.

    She described him as catatonic and said he didn't speak, but just stood there looking down. The woman said she gave the man a blanket to cover himself with until police arrived.

    After questioning the man, police returned to the suite and found the children's bodies around 8:30 p.m.

    The mother continues to receive treatment in hospital, Affolder said.

    "She has serious injuries but she will survive."

    Police are offering counselling and support to the officers who responded to the call.

    It has been an emotional case, Affolder said.

    "Investigations involving the senseless death of children create impacts that are felt throughout the community, including some of our officers."

    'Yelling the night before'

    Christian Tobar, who lives in Allen Manor, said the children and their family moved into the building about two months ago.

    He said he often heard arguments, even through the walls.

    "I heard yelling the night before [the kids were found dead]. The girl was like, 'I'm going to kill you ... get out of my house. Every time, you always do this to me,' and stuff like that," Tobar said.

    It makes me sick to my stomach.
    - Christian Tobar


    Tobar said police knocked on his door on Wednesday night and informed him of the deaths.

    Since then, the building has been crawling with police and forensic investigators in hazmat suits.

    Tobar was disturbed by the news.

    "I found that out and [I thought] I gotta move out of here, I'll be honest. It makes me sick to my stomach. I have kids myself."

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    Poor babies are always the ones who suffer the most in volatile relationships. Something I'll never understand.

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