Three women were killed in Peel Region in what area residents call a disturbing night of violence.
Two children were also taken to hospital in the two separate deadly incidents.
Peel Regional Police Homicide detectives are at the residential scenes investigating the region’s latest three murder victims — two in Brampton and one in Mississauga.
The first call was on Starhill Cr., near Dixie Rd. and Sandalwood Pkwy. E., where two women were found slain around 10:45 p.m. Friday in a home that had four people inside.
The victims — a woman, 32, and her mother, 60 — are thought to have been stabbed to death.
A 29-year-old man was arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree murder.
A child was also in the home but was not physically hurt.
Over on Marmac Cr., near Winston Churchill Blvd. and west of The Collegeway, neighbours are stunned by an ugly incident in which a women was found stabbed to death in a house around 1 a.m. Saturday.
Peel used force to arrest a man who was taken to hospital with unknown injuries.
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit been called in to probe the incident.
Two children also suffered serious injuries and were taken to hospital where they remain.
No charges have been announced but, like the Brampton case, they are expected soon.
A troubling night for Peel that kept police busy working through the night.
The carnage has upset many in the area. One murder is a bad night in Peel.
But three has rocked the region.
People having Saturday morning breakfast inside the Ido Cafe were upset — many wondering about the identity of the woman who was killed on nearby Marmac Cr.
“You feel nothing bad happens around you out here but that’s not true,” area resident Kathy Duffy said. “I think it is a dangerous time for woman right now in general.”
But to lose three women in one night — and have children rushed to hospital — is not something that should be glossed over.
“It shouldn’t be,” said Duffy. “It’s pathetic, frightening and sad statement on humanity at the moment. It’s very depressing.”