Tributes pour in: Family, community left shaken over murders of two Laval children

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A community is left grieving over the deaths of two children at a Laval home, north of Montreal, Monday night.

Many laying flowers and candles, coming to pay tribute to the 11 and 13 year olds.

Parm Kamal Singh, who lives in the neighbourhood, drove by the scene on Wednesday afternoon to pay his respects. His cousins are cousins with the victims.

“Still, they can’t believe. I talk to my cousins and they said, ‘I can’t sleep at night and everything,'” he said. “I wasn’t able to process it in my head. It’s so sad. Like, how could someone do that to their own children?”

The call came into to 911 around 6 p.m. Monday. It was the two children’s 18-year-old sister who first alerted authorities with the help of neighbour, Annie Charpentier.

Jeremy Aouizerats is her son and heard the incident unfold.

“I was studying like the usual because it’s exams period and all of a sudden I hear my mom rushing in the house,” he said. “She tells me that, ‘Jeremy, the neighbour killed his kids.’ I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’ And as soon as she’s telling me this, I go check outside and I see like 20 police cars, a bunch of ambulances.”

The children’s father, 45-year-old Kamaljit Arora, is accused of the two first-degree murders. He’s also charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm for allegedly strangling his wife.

He was due in court Wednesday and it was postponed again, as he was deemed unfit to appear from his hospital bed.

Kamal Singh says the father may have had a history of depression, but that the family seemed to him “normal.”

“My cousins, they were invited to their house two weeks ago,” he said. “They had a dinner with them, and everything. It was their son’s birthday, the son who died.”

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“Two new stars in the sky” reads a message left among flowers for the young boy and girl.

Aouizerats says he’s seen the two kids almost every day.

“Very cute kids,” he described them. “Once in the summer, my younger sister she was singing it in the garden and it was like 11 p.m. and all of a sudden, the little boy, actually, you could hear his voice, he’s like, ‘continue singing, you have a beautiful voice.’ And that was my most touching moment with the little boy.”

The tragedy is now leaving a mark on the loved ones of the young victims.

“I don’t know if they think they ever going to heal,” Kamal Singh said. “It’s really difficult to process the news.”