Ontario Provincial Police have confirmed a murder-suicide unfolded in a house in Central Elgin in late January, resulting in the deaths of two southwestern Ontario folks.
Tanya Wiebe, 38, was the sufferer of a murder, shot by 34-year-old Kyle Savage, police stated Wednesday.
Wiebe and Savage had been each discovered lifeless in Savage’s dwelling close to Sparta on Jan. 31.
The official affirmation or the reason for dying for the 2, who had been identified to have been in a relationship, comes greater than three months after the police started investigating their deaths.
Put up-mortem examinations discovered gunshot wounds had been the reason for dying for each folks, police stated.
Tanya Wiebe was a widely known hockey mother within the St. Thomas space and past, travelling to video games and tournaments supporting her son Chase and his teammates. (Kebbel Funeral House)
Within the days following Wiebe’s dying, an outpouring of assist got here out for the mom, particularly from southwestern Ontario’s hockey neighborhood. At one match at London Sports activities Park, gamers wore particular jerseys adorned together with her initials.
She was an energetic hockey mother who was described by those that knew her as stuffed with pleasure, and all the time keen to assist. Wiebe had a 15-year-old son who performed for the AAA Chatham-Kent cyclones.
The transfer by the OPP to publicly state the deaths had been a murder-suicide distinction the scenario surrounding the dying of a lady and her boyfriend in a London condominium constructing late final yr. Tiffany Gates’s mom Linda Davidson has been important of London police’s refusal to name her dying a murder-suicide.
An advocate who spoke with CBC Information following Wiebe’s dying stated ready for police to substantiate what family members stated they already knew to be true, was a critical burden on the household.
