Unnamed sources are telling media outlets, including CBC News, the man responsible for killing eight people in Edmonton, Alberta on Monday is 53-year-old Phu Lam, a maintenance worker at the resturant where he took his own life.
Six adults, between ages 25 and 50, and two children under age 10 were found dead in two separate residences on Monday night.
Little is known about Lam and his background, and police have not revealed his relationship to the eight victims.
He is listed as the co-owner of the north Edmonton home where seven of the dead were found.
Chau Tran, the owner of the VN Express, the restaurant where Lam was found dead, told CBC News on Wednesday that she was his former common-law spouse.
She said that Lam had remarried, but she didn’t know anything about his new family.
Police say Lam had a criminal record dating back to 1987, and used a stolen 9-mm handgun in what Edmonton Police Chief Rod Knecht called “an extreme case of domestic violence.”
Police said Wednesday that the seven people found dead at a home in north Edmonton were shot and killed first. The shooter then went to a home in the Haddow neighbourhood of south Edmonton where he killed Cyndi Duong, 37, the mother of three children.
The names of the other victims have not been released. Autopsies were to be performed on Thursday.
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