Yesterday, June 7th, there was a string of murders in the local area.
Insp. Kelly Johnson made an unusual visit to the Police station just before her and ex-lover, retired superintendent David Lucio, also a former Police officer - were found dead. She left the station in a van and was found dead only 6 blocks from the Police station, beside the 57 year old Lucio.
2 gunshots were fired, one for him and one for her.
It appears that Johnson shot Lucio and then turned the gun on herself, just before the van crashed into the side of a brick wall.
Chief Murray Faulkner of the London Police told news sources "nothing that happened last night [the 6th] makes any sense right yet...There will be sources that say that (Johnson was the shooter), and I understand that."
After approaching the bloody scene, a witness said "[there] was no movement. The people were obviously dead."
Johnson served 18 years on 'the force'. For several years she worked as the "detective sergeant in charge of the sexual assault and child abuse section and supervised the force's domestic violence co-ordinator". Lucio served 35 years before he retired from the force.
But that is not where the murder ends on this day in South Western Ontario.
Ten minutes south of London, in St. Thomas, there was another murder/(attempted)suicide.
It's reported that a man shot his girlfriend at their Balaclava St. home mid-day yesterday. After killing the woman, the male attempted to kill himself, only to find that he's an idiot and a failure and can't even kill himself. Police stated in a press conference that the man was in the St. Thomas General Hospital and is expected to live with non-life threatening injuries.
The odd thing is that this second murder has not been reported on by local media. Well, that is a lie, there is an article in the St. Thomas Times Journal about the case, but it revealed nothing new in regards to information.
I find it really odd that the London Free Press has not reported on this, considering they just had a similar story. You'd think they would exploit the similarities in the cases being so close together geographically.
Here's an article from THE LONDON FREE PRESS about the first case involving the Police.
'An irrational act'
Fri, June 8, 2007
Top-ranking female officer, retired superintendent found in scene of horror The service pistol used belonged to Kelly Johnson, a leader in fighting domestic violence.
By RANDY RICHMOND AND KELLY PEDRO, SUN MEDIA
Acting Insp. Kelly Johnson
Just before London police's "rising female star" and her ex-lover, a retired officer, were killed in a murder-suicide, she made a mysterious stop at the police station.
Then, Acting Insp. Kelly Johnson, the force's highest- ranking female officer, jumped into a waiting van.
Minutes later, two gunshots were fired inside a van before it crashed into a brick wall six blocks away from the station, outside Johnson's apartment building at 7 Picton St.
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Source: http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2007/06/08/4243749-sun.html
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