Police recommending review after woman killed in front of Calgary elementary school
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Calgary police are asking a provincial committee to review the events leading up to the murder of a mother outside an elementary school in the southwest.
Calgary police are asking a provincial committee to review the events leading up to the murder of a mother outside an elementary school in the southwest.
“I think in situations like this, I think we owe a further duty to try to dig deeper, notwithstanding the obvious to try to figure out the why,” said Calgary Police Service Chief Mark Neufeld.
Officers were called to the school in the southwestern community of Strathcona just before school started on Tuesday.
They found the woman, a mother, with apparent stab wounds and were unable to save her.
The suspect, who had been previously charged and released by the courts on a no-contact order, was found dead nearby by police.
There is a court-ordered publication ban on any information that would identify the man, woman and their children.
Police say in a statement that they have a robust approach to domestic violence, but every situation is complex.
