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Eagles dominate Saying goodbye
the Dominators to Fallon Mason
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85 CENTS (INCLUDING GST) M O N D AY, M A R C H 2 0 , 2 0 0 6 BRANTFORD, ONTARIO
Man fatally shot by police after killing his 8-year-old son
‘He was killed
An Expositor first-birthday
announcement from 1998 for
Jared Osidacz, who was killed
Saturday.
by his father’
Woman and girl also injured in
knife attack in northend home
BY VINCENT BALL seen smashed in on 4 Courtland’s
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD garage door, with a maroon Toyota
Corolla parked in front, surrounded by
A
city man was fatally shot by po- yellow police tape.
lice Saturday night, one hour af- One neighbour, who wouldn’t pro-
ter he killed his eight-year-old vide his name, said he was watching
son during a horrific domestic dispute. television when he heard three big
Jared Andrew Osidacz was due to bangs the night before.
celebrate his ninth birthday next He looked out the window to see the
month. street blocked with police cruisers. Up
“He was killed by his father,” his until that time, he wasn’t aware of any-
shaken mother, Julie Osidacz thing unusual on the street.
(Craven), told The Expositor Sunday The street is usually pretty quiet, the
night. “I just can’t talk about this now. I man said.
just can’t do it.” Other neighbours approached by The
The man shot and killed by city Expositor on Sunday morning also re-
police has been identified by the ported seeing a lot of police cruisers
province’s Special Investigations Unit but were unaware of what had hap-
as Jared’s father, Andrew Osidacz, 41. pened.
Jared was one of three people They said a woman lived there with
stabbed at a Courtland Drive home in a couple of young children but couldn’t
the city’s northend shortly after 7 p.m. provide any names.
Saturday. PHOTOGRAPHER FOLLOWED CRUISERS
An eight-year-old girl and a woman
were also sent to hospital with injuries Expositor photographer Brian Thomp-
after being attacked by the man, police son, who went to the scene Saturday
said. night after spotting police in the area,
The woman is in Hamilton General said officers were busy searching the
Hospital with non-life threatening in- area around the townhouse with flash-
juries. The young girl is in Brantford lights when suddenly several officers
General Hospital, also with non-life- jumped into their cruiser and sped off. Paramedics put an unidentified
threatening injuries, Insp. Scott Easto Police rushed two kilometres west to person into an ambulance in
said Sunday. a home at 18 Cecil Ave., where the sus- front of a house at 18 Cecil
Police have not released their names pect from the stabbings had been locat-
Ave. Saturday night at about
or their relationship to Andrew ed.
Osidacz. A television report identified In a statement released Sunday, the 8:20 p.m., after police shot a
them as Osidacz’s girlfriend and her SIU said city police officers went to Ce- murder suspect during a
daughter. cil Avenue as part of the investigation confrontation inside the home.
into a domestic dispute on Courtland The man, later identified as
SOME DETAILS SKETCHY Andrew Osidacz, 41, died in
Drive that had resulted in the death of
Andrew Osidacz was shot at a home an eight-year-old boy. hospital. The province’s Special
on Cecil Avenue shortly after 8 p.m. Two officers entered the home and Investigations Unit is
Saturday following a confrontation, were involved in a confrontation with a investigating the shooting.
then rushed to hospital where he was 41-year-old man, resulting in shots be-
pronounced dead. ing fired. The man was struck and tak- Photos by
Few details of the shooting have en to hospital, where he was Brian Thompson, Expositor Staff
been released, largely because of the pronounced dead, the SIU statement
SIU investigation. The SIU is a civilian said.
agency that investigates circumstances See SECOND, PAGE A2
involving police and civilians which
have resulted in serious injury, sexual
assault or death. CHRONOLOGY OF A MURDER
It is investigating the circumstances
surrounding Andrew Osidacz’s death. Here’s a chronology of Saturday’s homicide of an 8-year-old boy and city po-
Jared’s homicide is the city’s second lice’s shooting of his father:
of 2006, coming just four days after the
first one last Tuesday. It also came the Saturday, just after 7 p.m., city police are called to a townhouse at 4 Court-
same day as the funeral for Tuesday’s land Dr. and discover there has been a multiple stabbing.
victim, Fallon Mason, a 23-year-old The victims are a woman and two children.
single mother of two young children. Rescue workers are seen providing first aid to someone on the lawn in front
Saturday’s shocking night of violence of the townhouse.
began when police were called to a Police are seen searching the area with flashlights. About 8 p.m. several
townhouse at 4 Courtland Dr. some cruisers speed away from the scene.
time after 7 p.m. on Saturday. They Several police officers then arrive at 18 Cecil Dr., about two kilometres to
found three people — a young boy, a the west.
young girl and a woman — who had A sobbing, distraught woman is put in a cruiser asking police to go to hos-
been stabbed. pital.
At one point, there were as many as Sunday morning, city police say one of the children stabbed on Courtland
eight police cars, three ambulances Drive has died.
and a fire truck at the scene, a quiet Police also say the suspect in the Courtland Drive stabbing was later locat-
street with attractive, two-storey town- ed at a Cecil Drive residence, where he was shot by police.
houses north of Fairview Drive, near The man later died in hospital, sparking the province’s Special Investiga- This townhouse at 4 Courtland Dr. was the scene of a multiple
West Street. tions Unit to be called in. The SIU investigates police shootings. stabbing Saturday of a woman and two children, resulting in the
On Sunday, a large hole could be death of an 8-year-old boy.
WEATHER INDEX INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL
Today: Mix sun, cloud. High: 0. TWO SECTIONS War in Iraq enters 4th Thousands of Canadians
Tonight: Variably cloudy. Low: -7.
Ask Ellie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A7 year with more deaths protest war in Iraq
Details, PAGE A2 BAGHDAD — Nearly 1,500 Ameri- TORONTO — Thousands of anti-war
Births, Deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B9
Bridge, Comics, Crossword . .A10 can and Iraqi soldiers Sunday sought protesters took their message of peace
Careers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B8 to root out insurgents from farming to the streets of Canadian cities Satur-
Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B6-7 villages an hour’s drive north of the day, joining countless others world-
Expositor phone numbers . . . . .A2 capital, and at least 35 people died in wide marking the third anniversary of
Flashback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B9 rebel and sectarian violence country- the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
the expositor ON THE WEB Horoscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A10 wide. In Toronto, police estimated around
www.theexpositor.com International . . . . . . . . . . . . .A10, B8 Iraqi politicians still had not formed 1,000 protesters, including students,
Local . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A3 a government more than three months trade unionists and religious groups,
National . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A4-5, A7 after landmark elections for the coun- assembled in front of a downtown
Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A9 try’s first permanent post-invasion par- courthouse across from the U.S. con-
Seniors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A6 liament, but they announced an agree- sulate for the country’s largest anti-war
ment on naming a Security Council to Protesters gathered at the rally. The demonstrators also called on
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deal with key matters while negotia- U.S. Consulate in Toronto on Canada to withdraw its 2,200 troops
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Saturday to protest the war
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