Home
Search:
1146 feeds
357 categories
0 articles (<24 hours)
34 registered users

Use the Mobile version
Mobile

Follow our Twitter feed

View our Linkpartners
Links

Username:
Password:

Register | Retrieve

Culture


RSS FeedsPolice charge father of dead Mississauga girl, 11, with first-degree murder
(The Star Religion)

 
 

16 february 2019 00:33:51

 
Police charge father of dead Mississauga girl, 11, with first-degree murder
(The Star Religion)
 


The father of an 11-year-old girl who was the subject of a late-night Amber Alert has been charged with first-degree murder, Peel Regional Police confirmed on Friday. Riya Rajkumar was found dead on her birthday Thursday night after she had been in the care of her father, 41-year-old Roopesh Rajkumar.She was found dead in her father’s home in Brampton, on Hansen Rd. N., near Marshall Dr., shortly after 11 p.m. Thursday after officers forced their way into the home, police saidRajkumar was arrested by Ontario Provincial Police shortly after midnight near Orillia, almost 130 kilometres away. He was suffering from a “medical issue,” Const. Danny Marttini told reporters outside Peel police headquarters. Rajkumar was taken to a hospital and then a trauma centre, and was formally charged over the phone, Peel police said. Both the girl and her mother were celebrating their birthdays Thursday.“It’s very heart-wrenching,” Marttini said, adding at the end of the day, there’s a mother “moving forward without her daughter.”Meadowvale Village Public School posted a statement on its website saying “this tragedy has brought tremendous sadness to the students and staff” and that grief counsellors will be at the school for as long as needed.“Riya was a well-liked student, and her death is deeply felt by everyone at the school,” the statement read. “Even students who did not personally know Riya will also be affected by this tragedy.”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 be ...


 
2 viewsCategory: Culture > Religion
 
5 takeaways from White Sox spring training, including Tim Anderson`s leadership and Yolmer Sanchez`s dancing
(Chicago Tribune Religion News)
Aurora shooting updates: 6 dead, including gunman, and 5 officers wounded in attack at Illinois manufacturing firm
(Chicago Tribune Religion News)
 
 
blog comments powered by Disqus


Copyright © 2008 - 2024 Indigonet Services B.V.. Contact: Tim Hulsen. Read here our privacy notice.
Other websites of Indigonet Services B.V.: Nieuws Vacatures Science Tweets Nachrichten