{"id":770159,"date":"2026-06-30T02:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770159\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T02:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T02:41:12","slug":"ottawa-police-investigate-murder-suicide-after-2-boys-found-dead-in-home-dad-in-car-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770159\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa police investigate murder-suicide after 2 boys found dead in home, dad in car | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782787272_969_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police members walk on the street where two children were found dead in their home in the Findlay Creek neighbourhood of Ottawa on Monday, June 29, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Patrick Doyle<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 29, 2026 | 11:33 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Two children were found dead in an Ottawa home and their father in a vehicle about 60 kilometres south of the city in a suspected double murder and suicide, police said Monday, as officers investigate two fires believed to be linked to the case.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said they found the children, two boys aged seven and 12, while conducting a wellness check at a home on Mandevilla Crescent in the Findlay Creek neighbourhood on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>They said provincial police are also holding other locations outside of Ottawa believed to be linked to the investigation, including a vehicle fire at a carpool lot in Kemptville, where the boys\u2019 father was found dead.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday afternoon, a handful of neighbours were outside their houses on Mandevilla Crescent, where police had blocked off a large area. Yellow police tape cordoned off a home surrounded by police vehicles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police members walk on the street where two children were found dead in their home in the Findlay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,20739,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-770159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-ottawa","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}