GATINEAU, Quebec (AP) — Police evacuated children from a daycare center just outside Canada’s capital on Friday after two men died in a shooting.
Gatineau Police Chief Mario Haren said all 53 children were safe and unharmed.
Haren said police received a call about an armed man with a shotgun threatening people. They arrived to find the man dead with a shotgun beside him and a second, unidentified employee of the day care, also dead. He said the shooting seems to be related to a recent separation between a couple.
“We have two deceased. One of the males is responsible for this shooting. The other male works at this day care center,” Haren said. “Right now we’re investigating that this was related to a recent separation between a couple.”
The daycare center sits across the street from a hospital in this Quebec city, just across the river from Ottawa.