{"id":776342,"date":"2026-07-02T21:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776342\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T21:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T21:41:13","slug":"police-identify-father-in-suspected-ottawa-double-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776342\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify father in suspected Ottawa double murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The home where two children were found dead in the Findlay Creek neighbourhood of Ottawa on Monday.PATRICK DOYLE\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Police have identified the Ottawa man who is believed to have murdered his two young sons before taking his own life.<\/p>\n

The boys, aged seven and 12, were found dead in a home in the south end of the city on Monday. <\/p>\n

Investigators say they found 40-year-old Mohammed Al-Lami dead inside a vehicle in a Kemptville, Ont., carpool lot and they believe he was responsible for the double murder.<\/p>\n

Police say they are still investigating and will need time to finish forensic testing.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, officers said they were investigating a vehicle fire at the Kemptville site and a fire at a business in Iroquois, Ont., that were believed to be linked to the murder-suicide.<\/p>\n

Police say they are not releasing the names of the boys to protect the family\u2019s privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The home where two children were found dead in the Findlay Creek neighbourhood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,20739,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-776342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776342","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=776342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}