I can’t even imagine how horrible this is.
Why did it take them 5 fucking hours to issue this alert?
All this is very sad...
This is what they release so far...
The girl was supposed to be celebrating her birthday with her father Roopesh Rajkumar, police said, but was not returned to the custody of her mother by the agreed upon time.
Police say Roopesh Rajkumar had made comments to the child’s mother indicating that he planned to do harm to himself and his daughter, which prompted her to contact police.
“She received information which obviously set off her alarms which is why she attended the division,” Const. Danny Marttini told reporters on Friday morning. “She (the mother) came in already fully concerned saying ‘This is what he is saying to me, I am concerned for the wellbeing of my daughter and I need some help. Obviously our investigators took action right away.”
Marttini said that investigators asked Ontario Provincial Police to issue an Amber Alert after their initial attempts at locating the girl proved unsuccessful.
That alert was issued at around 11:30 p.m., but within an hour, Riya Rajkumar had been found dead in a basement apartment at a residence in the Queen Street and Highway 410 area of Brampton, where the suspect resided.
Roopesh Rajkumar was arrested in a high-risk takedown a short time later, after a motorist saw his vehicle on Highway 11 near Orillia and called 911.
He was held overnight at the Orillia detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police but was transferred into the custody of Peel Regional Police early Friday morning.
Marttini said that charges have not yet been filed because investigators will need to meet with a Crown attorney to discuss the “level of charges.”
In the meantime, she said that forensic investigators are combing for evidence at the apartment where the body of the child was located.
“We are looking at an active scene inside the residence so our forensics have to go in there and process it. They will be taking photographs, they will be collecting pieces of evidence, everything we need to make sure we have all the information about what occurred in that residence,” she said.
Victim was Grade 5 student at Mississauga school