Police investigators say couple's marriage had been in trouble before murder-suicide
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
KATHERINE WILTON
The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Ly Hieng Kia had been miserable the last few months.
He and his wife frequently argued, and their marriage was fraught with tension.
On Saturday, two days before his wife's birthday, Kia fatally stabbed her and stuffed her body between their bed and a wall in their apartment on St. Hubert St.
A few hours later, the couple's 6-year-old son crawled out of bed and went into the kitchen for breakfast.
Kia, 53, made his son toast and gave him a glass of milk.
Over breakfast, the boy asked whether he was going to his swimming lesson. His father told him there would be no swimming that day - his mother, Lor Huy Teang, 47, had cancelled the lesson, he told the boy.
After the youngster finished eating, his father sent him back to his bedroom.
His father stayed in the kitchen. He pulled out a knife and stabbed himself in the heart.
The boy returned a short time later and found his father dead on the floor, covered in blood.
The child telephoned an uncle, who raced to the apartment in the Villeray district, where the family lived above a sewing store they owned.
When police arrived, they discovered Teang's body stuffed behind the bed, said Commander Richard Dupuis, of the Montreal police major crimes squad.
Most Saturdays, Teang left the apartment about 6 a.m. to open the convenience store the family also runs.
"It was not unusual that she wasn't there when the little boy woke up," Dupuis said.
"But when he found his father covered in blood, he didn't know what had happened."
The boy will probably be sent to live with his grandmother, Dupuis said.
The couple, originally from Cambodia, moved to Canada in the 1980s, members of Montreal's Cambodian community said. They had been married seven years.
A few relatives knew the couple were having trouble, but they weren't sure why.
Teang's death was the 40th homicide in Montreal this year. There were 30 at the corresponding date last year.
kwilton@thegazette.canwest.com
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
KATHERINE WILTON
The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Ly Hieng Kia had been miserable the last few months.
He and his wife frequently argued, and their marriage was fraught with tension.
On Saturday, two days before his wife's birthday, Kia fatally stabbed her and stuffed her body between their bed and a wall in their apartment on St. Hubert St.
A few hours later, the couple's 6-year-old son crawled out of bed and went into the kitchen for breakfast.
Kia, 53, made his son toast and gave him a glass of milk.
Over breakfast, the boy asked whether he was going to his swimming lesson. His father told him there would be no swimming that day - his mother, Lor Huy Teang, 47, had cancelled the lesson, he told the boy.
After the youngster finished eating, his father sent him back to his bedroom.
His father stayed in the kitchen. He pulled out a knife and stabbed himself in the heart.
The boy returned a short time later and found his father dead on the floor, covered in blood.
The child telephoned an uncle, who raced to the apartment in the Villeray district, where the family lived above a sewing store they owned.
When police arrived, they discovered Teang's body stuffed behind the bed, said Commander Richard Dupuis, of the Montreal police major crimes squad.
Most Saturdays, Teang left the apartment about 6 a.m. to open the convenience store the family also runs.
"It was not unusual that she wasn't there when the little boy woke up," Dupuis said.
"But when he found his father covered in blood, he didn't know what had happened."
The boy will probably be sent to live with his grandmother, Dupuis said.
The couple, originally from Cambodia, moved to Canada in the 1980s, members of Montreal's Cambodian community said. They had been married seven years.
A few relatives knew the couple were having trouble, but they weren't sure why.
Teang's death was the 40th homicide in Montreal this year. There were 30 at the corresponding date last year.
kwilton@thegazette.canwest.com
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