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[B]Seven adults, two young children dead at three crime scenes[/B]

EDMONTON - Nine people died in Edmonton during a deadly overnight rampage that ended in the suicide of the primary suspect.

Calling it a “senseless mass murder of eight people,” Edmonton Police Chief Rod Knecht said seven victims — including two young children — were discovered inside a residence on the city’s north side early Tuesday morning. Another victim was found shot to death in a home across town late Monday night, while the suspect was discovered dead in a restaurant in the neighbouring community of Fort Saskatchewan early Tuesday.

“It is a tragic day in Edmonton,” a grim Knecht said during a news conference Tuesday afternoon. “There is no risk to the broader public and these events do not appear to be gang-related, but rather tragic incidents of domestic violence.”

In a second press conference at 9 p.m., Knecht called the day’s events “horrific.”

“In my 39 years of policing, I’ve never seen anything like it.”

A drama that has attracted international attention, the series of events began at 6:52 p.m. Monday when police were called to a residence in the Haddow neighbourhood in south Edmonton where they say a man entered the home, and shot and killed a woman with a 9-mm handgun, before fleeing.

At the time, police said the death occurred in a “family setting.”

Late Tuesday, police identified the woman as Cindy Duong, 37. An autopsy confirmed she died of a gunshot wound.

About 90 minutes later on Monday, shortly before 8:30 p.m., police responded to a home in the Klarvatten neighbourhood in north Edmonton after a man’s family had reported he was depressed, overly emotional and potentially suicidal.

Police walked around the exterior and peered in windows and found nothing suspicious. Nobody answered the door and there was no trace of the man, so officers left. Before entering the home, police needed “reasonable and probable grounds” to do so, and did not have them at that time, Knecht said.

They returned just after midnight after receiving further information from a “second individual,” the chief said, although he would not elaborate on the nature of the information or who the person was.

At that time, police found the bodies of seven people inside: three women, two men, and a boy and a girl.

Police say the adults are all aged 25-50, and the children both younger than 10. Knecht could not say what time they had been killed.

Two hours later in Fort Saskatchewan, police spotted a black Mercedes SUV that was connected to the first killing. It was parked outside a Vietnamese restaurant called VN Express, which police also linked to the suicidal male from the north Edmonton homicides. Knecht said that the man had a “business interest” in the restaurant.

Suspecting the man was inside, police surrounded the restaurant and then rammed its entrance at 6:30 a.m., and commanded he come out.

Receiving no response, police entered the restaurant at 7:34 a.m. and found a dead man matching the description of the suicidal male. Investigators then shut down the downtown area for an hour as they collected evidence.

Knecht said the man was “known to police” and had a criminal record dating back to 1987 for drug and violence-related issues. The handgun used in all of the deaths was legally registered in B.C. in 1997, but was stolen in Surrey in 2006.

Knecht said the investigation remains “fluid,” and that investigators are still trying to sort out the exact sequence of events, and how all of the victims and suspects are linked. He did say though that the murders were “planned, deliberate and targeted.”

Police would not provide the name of the suspect or the other victims, but tax documents show the north Edmonton home is owned by Phu Lam and Thuy-Tien “Tien” Truong.

Knecht said police had been called to the house twice in recent years: Once in 2013 for a “check on welfare” call, and once in 2012 when the male suspect in the killings was arrested for domestic assault, sexual assault and uttering threats.

Thanh Nguyen, a friend who stopped by the home Tuesday afternoon, described Lam as “a really nice guy,” but noted that “the family had trouble, problems.” Nguyen said Lam’s ex-wife owns a Fort Saskatchewan restaurant.

Neighbours said five people — a couple, an elderly woman and two children — lived in the residence.

The older woman, perhaps a grandmother, sat outside in summer watching the children play, and drew for them with chalk on the sidewalk.

“When someone tells you seven people are dead, it’s shocking,” neighbour Moe Assiff said. “I’m lost for words. It’s definitely devastating.”

The scope and the scale of the carnage has stunned everyone from neighbours to Alberta Premier Jim Prentice.

“I wish to express my sorrow at the tragic incident which claimed lives in Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan today,” Prentice said in a statement. “In this season of peace and goodwill, this act of violence is all the more difficult to comprehend.”

Amy Duong, the vice-president external of the Edmonton Viets Association, said the group did not know the victims. All are believed to be Vietnamese.

“It’s a tragic and horrific event,” Duong said. “I’ve never heard of this kind of domestic violence in the Vietnamese community before.”

Near the crime scenes, residents expressed horror over the events that unfolded over the previous 24 hours.

When Farley Yuras moved into his home on 180A Avenue over two years ago, a boy who lived around the corner asked if he could take Yuras’s dog for a walk. Yuras is stunned now that the house was the scene of a mass murder.

“I’m just sort of disgusted and shocked,” he said. “It’s just really, really sad.”

Prior to the killings on Monday and Tuesday, there had been 27 homicides in Edmonton in 2014. These eight deaths bring the total to 35.

Knecht said autopsies will be performed on the suspect and seven victims from the north Edmonton home on Jan. 1.

Responding officers did an admirable job, the chief said.

“At this point it appears we did everything we could have at that time,” Knecht said.

With files from Ryan Cormier, Paula Simons, Madeline Smith, and Elise Stolte

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