Five people are dead in a murder-suicide in Calgary, Canada, which occurred on Tuesday, May 27. 34-year-old Joshua Lall stabbed and killed his 35-year-old wife, Alison, his two daughters, Kristen, 5 and Rochelle, 3, and 30-year-old Amber Bowerman, a tenant in their home, before committing suicide. A third daughter, one-year-old Anna, was not harmed.
Joshua apparently harbored a mental illness, which is thought by police investigators to be the driving force behind the murders. A few days before this event, Joshua had called his father, Dominic Lall, telling him of a “mental breakdown” he was having. Just prior to the murders, the family’s babysitter, Katie Blewaska, had received a call stating that her husband was “finally on the mend”.
Joshua was studying to become a professional architect, and had been interning at Cohos Evamy, a local architectural firm. Rob Adamson, chairman of the firm, said of Joshua “[t]here were no indicators to us at work of any problems. He was just a solid, come-to-work and get-it-done kind of guy.”
Amber Bowerman was a journalist working as the publication editor for the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) student newspaper. She had been attending a conference in Lake Louise, in the Rocky Mountains, and had been invited to stay an extra day. Instead, she chose to go back to her residence in the Lall family home to finish up her work. Suzanne Trudel, publications manager of the SAIT newspaper, rode home with Bowerman from the conference, and said that she spoke glowingly of the family.
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