A Brampton father has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of his two young sons who were found dead inside their suburban home late Wednesday night.Police received a call for medical assistance from inside the home on Hiberton Crescent, a residential street near Sandalwood Parkway West and Creditview Road around 10:55 p.m. Wednesday night. Officers found two boys, 12 and 9, dead in the home. The Peel homicide squad took over the investigation after the boys’ deaths were deemed suspicious, Peel police Const. Heather Cannon told reporters at the scene.“We didn’t find any obvious signs of trauma to the children. It was a bit later on that it was determined to be a suspicious death,” she said, announcing that police had charged Edwin Bastidas, 52, with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his sons. Police have not yet named the boys, nor released their cause of death. At the scene, neighbour Paula Da Silva identified the boys who lived at the home Jonathan Bastidas, 12, and Nicolas Bastidas, 9.“They’re a wonderful family,” said Da Silva, who said she is the boys’ teacher at a before and after school program. “I can’t even process it,” she said.Da Silva described Nicolas as “just a very easy going kid” who could “mingle with anyone.His brother Jonathan was “really into LEGO.”A Peel police mobile command centre blocked off half of the snowy suburban street Thursday morning as neighbours gathered in clusters.The two-storey brick detached home could be seen behind police tape, with Halloween decorations still visible by the door.Kids wandered through the neighbourhood on their way home from school, in the afternoon, as a school bus squeezed by news trucks.A boy who the Star is not identifying because he’s a minor and a parent wasn’t present, described Jonathan as “very energetic”, social,” and “always happy. ...
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