What the fuck is wrong with this world?

[jay92388]

OSHAWA, Ont. - A mother of three died shielding her husband from a deranged family associate, who went on a knifing rampage and turned her son's birthday party into a bloodstained crime scene, relatives and police said Sunday.


Yellow police tape fluttered around the townhouse complex as police forensic specialists and investigators with the province's Special Investigations Unit scoured the home and relatives and neighbours tried to make sense of the horrific violence.


"It's nuts. It's just crazy, the whole situation," said relative Dave McLean.


"I couldn't believe it at all. I didn't even think it was real."


Relatives and neighbours identified the dead woman as Leslie Kelly, 26; her husband Ricky Kelly, 29, who was fighting for his life in hospital; and their two youngest children - Nate, 5, and Riley, 3 - were injured in the attack.


Police responding to the dying mother's frantic 911 call Saturday afternoon shot the attacker dead during a subsequent confrontation at an adjacent unit.


They identified the assailant as Gino Petralia, 47, whose son Steven, 13 - Ricky Kelly's half-brother - was at the party and had been taken in by the Kellys after the teen's mother died in August.


McLean said the incident apparently began with a scuffle when Ricky Kelly, McLean's nephew, asked Petralia to leave.


They got into a fight, Petralia pulled out a knife and Leslie Kelly jumped between the attacker and her husband, getting stabbed multiple times in the chest, McLean said.


"All hell broke loose," said McLean, who called Kelly "a beautiful mom."


"She's a frigging hero - I mean, she saved him."


McLean said birthday boy Brandon Kelly, who neighbours said was celebrating his ninth birthday, came downstairs, found his injured three-year-old brother and then discovered his mom lying in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor.


Brandon and two other children in the unit were not hurt.


McLean, who had known Petralia for 30 years, said the man had been on social assistance with a mental problems for about a decade.


"I just think that he snapped finally, because he has a tendency to go off. Not as severe as this. He's just nuts."


Ian Christensen said he didn't know his neighbours well, but witnessed the frantic scene as paramedics put Leslie Kelly on a stretcher and carried one of her children to an ambulance.


As he pondered retrieving his vehicle from behind the police lines, Christensen said he was glad to be moving out of the complex at the end of the month.

"I've got kids," he said. "I don't want them going up against this kind of thing."

Neighbours described the Kellys as a nice working couple with three children.

Chris McIntosh, who lives across the parking lot from the Kellys, called the incident devastating.

"We couldn't believe it," McIntosh said.

"We've just been sitting there in a daze all morning. I was up with my children ... they were crying their eyes out."

Another young neighbour, Jamie-Lynn Trip, said the killings had cast a pall on her pending 11th birthday party, which she celebrates this week.

"I feel like running away, because I don't feel like getting murdered by one of these people," she said.

"I find it really scary because people are getting murdered and if they're running down and I came out to see what happened, they might murder me."

John Yoannou of the Special Investigations Unit said police found Petralia in an adjacent unit, a confrontation occurred and an officer shot him dead.

The SIU is a civilian police watchdog that probes police actions in cases where someone is killed or injured by an officer.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/0...irthday_deaths

[Goat Gosselin]

i just finished reading this story in the paper. the kids will be scarred for life now and everything else that happened them thru that ordeal will make it harder thru out life