{"id":817216,"date":"2026-07-21T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/817216\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:55:09","slug":"ottawa-police-wrap-investigation-into-killings-of-two-young-boys-in-murder-suicide-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/817216\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa police wrap investigation into killings of two young boys in murder-suicide \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

OTTAWA \u2013 Ottawa police have released more details about the case of a 40-year-old man who murdered his two young sons before taking his own life in June.<\/p>\n

Police say they have finished their investigation and determined that Mohammed Al-Lami killed the boys, aged seven and 12, during the late evening of June 28 or in the early morning hours of June 29, when their bodies were discovered in a home on Mandevilla Crescent.<\/p>\n

They say Al-Lami then intentionally set fire to his dental practice in Iroquois south of Ottawa before dying by suicide in a vehicle near Kemptville, Ont.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPolice 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

Police say the father had picked up the two boys for his scheduled parenting time two days before they were found dead.<\/p>\n

Investigators say the evidence has established that Al-Lami acted alone.<\/p>\n

Police say he had a history of intimate partner violence and there was ongoing conflict involving parenting arrangements and financial support.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile no single circumstance can fully explain this violence, the evidence indicates that these issues likely formed part of the context leading to the deaths,\u201d police said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that the findings have been shared with the boys\u2019 mother.<\/p>\n

Deputy Chief Patricia Ferguson said the boys\u2019 deaths have impacted the entire community.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recognize the profound impact these deaths have had on the boys\u2019 family, friends, school communities, neighbours and everyone who was affected by this tragedy,\u201d said Ferguson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police say the names of the boys will not be released publicly at the request of their mother.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 21, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2013 Ottawa police have released more details about the case of a 40-year-old man who murdered his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-817216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817216","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=817216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}