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Ottawa police have charged a man with first-degree murder after the brutal daytime killing of a mother in a park on Thursday.
Police said Friday that 36-year-old Fsha Tehkle, of Montreal, faces first-degree murder charges in what police described as a femicide.
He’s accused of killing Brkti Berhe, 36, of Ottawa.
“Tehkle had a domestic relationship with a family member of the victim,” police said. “This tragic event is a femicide.”
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Femicide is generally defined as “the killing of women and girls because of their gender” often driven by stereotyped gender roles, discrimination towards women and girls or unequal power relations between women and men, the police said. The Ottawa Police Service also builds on the definition recommended by community partners as “the misogynist killing of women and girls because of their gender, overwhelmingly committed by men.”
Eyewitnesses to the fatal stabbing at Paul Landry Park on Uplands Drive said a man leapt from a car, ran at the woman and began to attack her. A witness said the man repeatedly stabbed the woman before slashing at her neck, ran back to his car and drove away.
Another man reportedly ran after the car to photograph its licence plate.
Another person protected the victim’s children while a woman tended to the dying mother, telling her: “Your children are OK, your children are safe.”
Tehkle is scheduled to appear in court on Friday.
More to come…
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