Teen arrested after 2 killed in Ont. home
Woman, teenage daughter shot to death; 18-year-old relative wounded
Last Updated: Friday, March 12, 2010 | 10:31 PM ET
CBC News
Police tape outside a house in Mountain View, Ont., where a woman and her teenage daughter were shot to death on Friday. (Dave Seglins/CBC)Police in eastern Ontario arrested an 18-year-old man Friday after a triple shooting in the small community of Mountain View that left a woman and her teenage daughter dead.
Ontario Provincial Police found the bodies of Tracy Hannah, 46, and her 14-year-old daughter, Whitney, at their home in the town south of Belleville on Friday morning.
The third person shot was an 18-year-old female who is believed to be a relative of the two victims. She was airlifted to Kingston General Hospital with life-threatening injuries and remains in serious but stable condition, police said.
Police have not released the name of the suspected shooter, who is believed to be an acquaintance of the daughter. He is facing two first-degree murder charges and an attempted murder charge and is scheduled to appear in a Kingston, Ont., court Saturday morning.
Prince Edward County OPP responded to a 911 call about a shooting at a house on Valley Road at about 6 a.m. ET Friday. After a chase, police arrested the man they suspect is the shooter in nearby Trenton, about three hours after the killings.
"It was crazy," Trenton resident Jay Miller said. "As I entered town, there was probably 20, 25 police cars all over the place. There were officers on the bridges with automatic weapons drawn."
Miller said he saw police with a young man in the back of a cruiser moments after he was arrested. He said the man appeared to be about five feet six inches tall and had short dark hair.
Neighbours shocked
Police have an 18-year-old man in custody after a triple shooting near Belleville, Ont. (CBC)Mary-Anne Bosma lives down the street from the Hannah family and said they moved in just a year or two ago.
"I've got goose bumps thinking about this," Bosma said. "I don’t know what to think."
Many of the homes in the area are farms. The Hannah property is a ranch-style home set well back from the road that borders a farm.
Several other neighbours refused to talk about the grim situation, which sparked a frenzy of police activity on the road. One distraught neighbour had to be consoled by police officers.
Police taped off the home as forensic investigators combed the property.
Neil Ellis, the mayor of Belleville, told CBC News it was another "tragic day" in the area, which was recently in the news because of the murder of Jessica Lloyd, 27, of nearby Tweed, Ont.
Col. Russell Williams, the former commander of the Canadian Forces Base in nearby Trenton, was arrested in February in connection with that death. He is facing first-degree murder charges for Lloyd's death and that of another woman, Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, 38, of Brighton, Ont.
With files from The Canadian Press
