Police plan to charge the father of an 11-year-old girl found dead in a Brampton residence with first-degree murder.Riya Rajkumar, the subject of a late-night Amber Alert on Thursday night, was found in her father’s home in Brampton on Hansen Rd. N., near Marshall Dr., hours after she vanished while in the care of 41-year-old Roopesh Rajkumar. Officers had to force their way into his home. Rajkumar was arrested by Orillia OPP shortly after midnight, almost 130 km away. He was suffering from a “medical issue,” Const. Danny Marttini told reporters outside Peel police headquarters.Both the girl’s and her mother’s birthdays were on Thursday.“It’s very heart-wrenching,” Marttini said, adding at the end of the day, there’s a mother “moving forward without her daughter.”Rajkumar was taken into police custody shortly after midnight. He was taken to a hospital and then a trauma centre. He hasn’t been formally charged.“We will stand by until he has been medically cleared,” she said, declining to provide more details on his condition.The girl did not live with her father on a full-time basis, police said, but was dropped off at a Mississauga gas station at about 3 p.m. “In a tragic situation like this when your daughter goes to spend her birthday, especially on Valentine’s Day, with her father and you expect your child to come home, my heart aches for this family,” Const. Akhil Mooken told reporters shortly after the body was found. “As a parent, I can’t even begin to imagine what the mom is going through and it’s something that we never want to be involved in, but it’s a terrible situation.”Police said Riya’s mother called the authorities when the pair did not return at 6:30 p.m. and reported that Rajkumar made comments indicating he could cause harm to himself and his daughter. “That obviously set off alarms,” Marttini told ...
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