'Life is never, ever going to be the same for this family again': 2 killed in Calgary homicides remembered
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Warning: This story contains details of intimate partner violence and may affect those who've experienced or been impacted by it.
Ania Kaminski and her father Stanislaw Wardzala are being remembered as an amazing mother and grandfather of three young children after they were killed in a double homicide over the weekend.
It's believed the two were killed by Ania's spouse, 38-year-old Benedict Kaminski, in an attack that police called targeted and domestic in nature.
Police said a woman in her 30s and a man in his 70s, the woman's father, were found dead Sunday at two separate locations in Calgary, sparking a manhunt for Benedict.
Late on Monday, police found his body near his vehicle parked in a rural area 80 kilometres northwest of Calgary.
Autopsies for both victims are to take place Friday.
Peter Wardzala, Ania's younger brother, says he believes the killing of his sister and father may have stemmed from an argument between Ania and Benedict that happened on Christmas Day during dinner.
"There was something off about him … like the way that my sister is cutting pickles and stuff, three times in under a minute he's arguing about it with her, and we're all saying, 'What's wrong?'" Peter said.
He added Benedict became so aggravated during dinner that things almost came to blows between him and his brother-in-law.
Peter says Ania told him she planned to leave her spouse after the Christmas dinner dispute. Days later, on Dec. 29, she and their father were killed in separate homicides.
"I honestly never thought that this guy was capable of doing something this horrific," Peter said.
"It completely, completely broke me down. I know my mom was broken, and I knew right from then on that life is never, ever going to be the same for this family again."
Ania is survived by three young children — a six-year-old son, a four-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son.
"She would do anything for these three children of hers, absolutely anything," Peter said.
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