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Funerals arranged for Calgary mass stabbing victims

Darpan News Desk, Darpan, 18 Apr, 2014 03:02 PM
  • Funerals arranged for Calgary mass stabbing victims

Funeral and memorial services have been arranged for the five Calgary students that were murdered at a house party Tuesday.

Josh Hunter, Zackariah Rathwell, Jordan Segura, Kaiti Perras and Lawrence Hong were stabbed to death by Matthew de Grood, son of Calgary police Insp. Douglas de Grood.

Funeral services for three of the five young adults have been arranged for Monday in Calgary.

Matthew was apprehended shortly after the incident and has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder.

News reports suggest that two of the five victims lived at the house where the mass stabbing occurred.

Meanwhile, police is investigating the text messages that were sent and received from Matthew's phone before the stabbings. 

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