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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Nine people, including seven adults and two young children, were found dead at three separate crime scenes in what Edmonton's police chief on Tuesday called a "senseless mass murder." 
  
 Edmonton City Police Chief Rod Knecht speaks about multiple homicides that took place at different scenes over night in Edmonton, Alberta, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. Police have confirmed the deaths of six... (Associated Press) 
  
 Police investigate the scene where multiple deaths occurred overnight in Edmonton, Alberta, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jason Franson) (Associated Press) 
  
 Edmonton City Police Chief Rod Knecht speaks about multiple homicides that took place at different scenes over night in Edmonton, Alberta, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. Police have confirmed the deaths of six... (Associated Press) 
  
 Edmonton City Police Chief Rod Knecht speaks about multiple homicides that took place at different scenes over night in Edmonton, Alberta, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. Police have confirmed the deaths of six... (Associated Press) 
  
 Police investigate a scene where a car rammed a truck and damaged a restaurant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. Edmonton City Police Chief Rod Knecht spoke Tuesday about multiple... (Associated Press) 
  
 Edmonton City Police Chief Rod Knecht arrives to speak about multiple homicides that took place at different scenes over night in Edmonton, Alberta, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. Police have confirmed the deaths... (Associated Press) 
  
 Chief Rod Knecht told a news conference the killings were the result of domestic violence. The victims included a woman found Monday night by officers who were responding to a weapons complaint at a south Edmonton home. 
  
 The bodies of three more women, two men, a boy and a girl were discovered a few hours later at a home in the northeast part of the city where officers had checked on reports of a suicidal male earlier in the evening. 
  
 None of the victims was identified, but Knecht said the public was not in danger. 
  
 "This series of events are not believed to be random acts," he said. "These events do not appear to be gang-related, but rather tragic incidents of domestic violence." 
  
 A man matching the description of the suicidal male was found dead in a restaurant in the Edmonton bedroom community of Fort Saskatchewan on Tuesday morning, Knecht said. 
  
 "Our homicide investigators have established associations and linkages between these homicides," he said. 
  
 Police would not elaborate on the connection between the deaths. ||||| Click here for a mobile version of the ScribbleLive 
  
 A suicidal male is being blamed for the deaths of eight people — including five adults and two children found in a north Edmonton home — marking the largest mass homicide in the city’s history. 
  
 The violence began around 6:52 p.m. Monday when police were called to a home near Haswell Court and 16 Avenue in southwest Edmonton and found a middle-aged woman deceased. Police believe a man entered the residence and shot the woman before fleeing the scene. 
  
 An hour-and-a-half later, officers were called to a home near 83 Street and 180 Avenue to check on the welfare of an emotionally unstable man, but he wasn’t there. 
  
 “According to the family, the male seemed depressed and overly emotional,” said Edmonton police Chief Rod Knecht, adding there was nothing suspicious at the home at the time. 
  
 “The family was concerned that the male may be suicidal.” 
  
 Police did an exterior check of the house, checking the door and looking in windows, but did not gain entry. The vehicle connected to the slayings was not at the residence. 
  
 Police left the home, but later returned around 12:23 a.m. after receiving further information. Inside, they found the bodies of three female adults, two male adults, and two young children — one male and female — shot dead. 
  
 Two hours later, city cops headed out to the VN Express Restaurant in Fort Saskatchewan, where they discovered a black SUV that matched the description of the vehicle believed to be associated to the first slaying in southwest Edmonton. 
  
 RCMP later shut down the downtown core of Fort Saskatchewan around 9 a.m. Several witnesses in the area watched police blow out the front door and a large window of the restaurant. A police dog was also sent into the business, along with a police-controlled robot. 
  
 RCMP found a male deceased in the restaurant from what appeared to be an apparent suicide. Police said it’s the same suicidal male Edmonton detectives had been looking for earlier. 
  
 “It is a tragic day for Edmonton and our thoughts go out to the community as we all come to terms with the senseless mass murder of eight people,” said Knecht. “This series of events are not believed to be random acts and there is no risk to the broader public,” said Knecht, adding homicide detectives have established links between the two homicide locations. “These events do not appear to be gang related, but rather tragic incidents of domestic violence.” 
  
 One of the two people listed as the owners of the north Edmonton home is 53-year-old Phu Lam, who is known to police and believed to be responsible for the slayings. Lam is also believed to be an owner of the restaurant in Fort Saskatchewan. 
  
 Neighbours of the north Edmonton home said the young Vietnamese couple lived there with their two children, aged eight and one-and-a-half. The couple were prone to acts of domestic violence. One neighbour saw police at the home at least three times in the past two years. 
  
 Police had been called to the north side house twice in the last two years, and they say the suspect has a criminal record dating back to 1987. 
  
 Police have identified Cindy Duong, 37, as the victim of the southside homicide. The victims of the north side slaying have not been identified, but the five adult victims were between the ages of 25 and 50 and the two children were younger than 10 years old. 
  
 The weapon used in the homicides was a 9mm handgun that was purchased legally in B.C. and stolen in 2006. 
  
 Knecht said help is available for officers who attended the scenes, though he said officers have handled the situation professionally. 
  
 “It’s been described as chaotic. It’s horrific,” Knecht said. 
  
 “In my 39 years of policing I have never seen anything like it.” 
  
 More details will become available after the eight autopsies are conducted on Jan. 1. 
  
 Up until Monday, the city had recorded 28 homicides, including a man shot by police in May. Six people were killed in a mass murder near Edmonton in 1956, but the city has seen nothing similar since. 
  
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 ​ ||||| The killings of six adults and two children in Edmonton were committed by a suspect with a stolen 9mm handgun, police chief Rod Knecht said in a news conference Tuesday night. 
  
 The victims were found in two separate residences in Edmonton Monday night. The man police believe responsible was found dead by suicide in a restaurant in the nearby city of Fort Saskatchewan on Tuesday morning. Knecht said the man had a criminal record dating back to 1987. 
  
 "It appears to be an extreme case of domestic violence gone awry," he said, stressing that there was no evidence of gang links. He said the slayings were planned and deliberate. 
  
 Police investigate at a restaurant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., on Tuesday. The scene is said to be related to multiple deaths that occurred in a north Edmonton home overnight. (Jason Franson/Canadian Press) 
  
 Knecht said the first body found by police, now identified as Cyndi Duong, 37, was found by police officers responding to a weapons complaint in south Edmonton around 6:53 p.m. Monday. A man entered the home and shot the woman, who was pronounced dead at the scene, he said. 
  
 Police then received a call to check on the welfare of a man at a home located at 83rd Street and 180 Avenue in north Edmonton. 
  
 "According to family, the male seemed depressed and overly emotional," Knecht said. "The family was concerned that the male may be suicidal." 
  
 When police arrived, the man wasn't there, Knecht said. Then at 12:23 a.m., police went back to the home and discovered the bodies of seven people: three women, two men and two children – a boy and a girl. 
  
 The adults found dead were between the ages of 25 and 50, with the children under the age of 10. 
  
 At 2:20 a.m., police went to a restaurant in Fort Saskatchewan. There they found a vehicle matching the description of the one owned by the suicidal male. The SUV was the same vehicle seen in the south Edmonton neighbourhood on Monday night, and was missing from the north Edmonton home. 
  
 The man was found dead inside when police entered the restaurant at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday. Knecht said the man died in an apparent suicide. He said police are not looking for other suspects in the slayings. 
  
 Autopsies on the remaining victims and the suspect are scheduled for Jan. 1. 
  
 Police have not described the relationships between the victims and the man who committed suicide. Knecht said this was the biggest mass murder in Edmonton since six people were slain in 1956. 
  
 The gun used in the slaying was registered in British Columbia in 1997 and stolen from Surrey in 2006. Knecht said the suspect had a business interest in the restaurant where he was found dead. 
  
 The suspect was known to Edmonton Police. Knecht said officers had gone to the north Edmonton home twice: once this year, and once in November 2012, where a man was charged with domestic violence, sexual assault and uttering threats. 
  
 Knecht also explained why police didn't enter the north Edmonton home when police were first called there. He said officers walked around the house but couldn't get in. 
  
 “They looked in windows, they checked a door and they weren’t able to get a response," he said. 
  
 Later, they received a call from someone which gave them grounds to enter the home. That's when they found the seven bodies. 
  
 "It was chaotic. It's horrific," Knecht said. 
  
 "This is a horrific event for the city … in my 39 years of policing, I've never seen anything like it." 
  
 Neighbours heard fighting 
  
 People in Fort Saskatchewan became aware of the police presence early Tuesday morning. The downtown core of the city northeast of Edmonton was closed. The area has reopened, but police tape remained around the VN Express Vietnamese and Chinese Restaurant. 
  
 A small memorial was set up outside the north Edmonton where five adults and two children were killed Monday night. (Leah Larocque/CBC News ) 
  
 A Mercedes SUV with a smashed side window was parked outside. 
  
 Fort Saskatchewan resident Bonnie Peet first noticed police around 6 a.m. 
  
 “My whole road in front of my place was blocked off, so I knew something was going on and then it got lighter out ...and you see police going up and down the alleys," she said. 
  
 Another resident said that a helicopter could be heard circling overhead early Tuesday morning. 
  
 A woman who works at a restaurant across the street said she saw police drive a tactical unit through the restaurant door. 
  
 People who live next to the home in north Edmonton say a woman, a grandmother and two school-aged children lived there. The neighbours said they heard domestic arguments inside the home next door. Once they heard a man and woman fighting in the street. 
  
 "We knew the ex-husband didn't live there anymore," neighbour Murray Schermack said. 
  
 Resident Maria Melo said it's the kind of community where people say hi to one another. 
  
 Investigators remain on scene at the north Edmonton home where seven bodies were found. (Lydia Neufeld/CBC) 
  
 "We don't visit or nothing, but it's just a good neighbourhood," she said."It's so sad to hear about that family. It's really very sad." 
  
 In the Haddow community in south Edmonton, where the first person was killed, residents expressed concern for the children who lived in the home. The three children often played with others in the neighbourhood. 
  
 Police said they are in a safe place. 
  
 "We're all disturbed by it and wondering about how the family is doing," Frank Engley said. 
  
 RCMP are also investigating a death in an industrial area near Sherwood Park where a body was found in a burned-out vehicle on Tuesday morning. It does not appear to be related to the other crimes. |||||
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A killing spree in Canada has left nine people dead at three separate locations in or near Edmonton, reports the CBC. Authorities think one man killed six adults and two children in a domestic dispute before committing suicide. Edmonton police found the first victim, a middle-aged woman, inside a home while responding to a weapons complaint at the address yesterday evening. Shortly after midnight, after getting multiple calls about a potential suicidal male at a separate address, they found the bodies of seven more victims—identified only as three women, two men, a boy, and a girl, reports the AP. (Police had gone to the home earlier, about 8:30pm, but left after getting no answer and seeing nothing suspicious.) After 2am, police spotted the vehicle of the suicidal man outside a restaurant in nearby Fort Saskatchewan. Officers found the man dead inside when they entered about 9am today, reports the Edmonton Sun. Police haven't identified any of the victims or spelled out the relationships between them and the shooter. "These events do not appear to be gang-related, but rather tragic incidents of domestic violence," says Edmonton's police chief.