Watch above: Francis Silvaggio takes a look at the young lives that were lost in Calgary’s worst mass murder.
CALGARY- The five victims of a shocking stabbing spree at a house in Brentwood have been identified.
They are:
Lawrence Hong
Josh Hunter
Kaitlin Perras
Zackariah Rathwell
Jordan Segura
Rathwell was a first year student at the Alberta College of Art & Design. He was also the lead singer in a band called Zackariah & The Prophets, whose drummer, Josh Hunter, was also killed in the attack.
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According to his Facebook page, Lawrence Hong was an urban studies student at the University of Calgary.
All of the victims were in their twenties.
The shocking attack happened during a party at a home, celebrating Bermuda Shorts Day, which marks the end of classes at the University of Calgary. Police Chief Rick Hanson called it the “worst mass murder in Calgary’s history.”
22-year-old Matthew Douglas de Grood has since been charged with five counts of first-degree murder. He is the son of a veteran Calgary police officer, and was recently accepted into the University of Calgary’s faculty of law.
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