A 32-year-old man is accused of killing his partner in their Granby apartment on Friday evening, making her the first victim of a homicide this year in Quebec.
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Michaël Dugas-Farcy briefly appeared Saturday evening by telephone to face one count of second-degree murder. The case will return to court on Monday at the Granby courthouse for further proceedings.
The victim in this case was found lifeless inside a home on Elgin Street around 8 p.m. Friday.
This is Chloé Lauzon-Rivard, a young woman without history who worked as a beneficiary attendant for elderly people.
“She fought to get what she got. She thought of others before thinking of herself,” her father, Gilles Rivard, testified to TVA Nouvelles.
The 29-year-old woman’s body bore obvious marks of violence, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Her partner of recent years, Michaël Dugas-Farcy, fled before the police arrived.
He was finally arrested late in the evening nearly 200 km from the crime scene, in Laurier-Station, a suburb of Quebec.
Confessions
According to our information, it was a friend of Dugas-Farcy who contacted the police in the evening on Friday to report that the 32-year-old man had confessed to having killed his partner and that he had then left the scene by car with intending to end his life.
The discovery of his partner’s body was made shortly afterwards. The investigation is in the hands of the Sûreté du Québec.
“Like any parent, we worry all the time, but I never saw this coming. They had little quibbles like everyone else, but I never had a bad feeling,” the victim’s father, Gilles Rivard, told TVA Nouvelles.
Photo taken from Michaël Dugas-Farcy’s Facebook page
Happy couple
In the last few days, Chloé Lauzon-Rivard and Michaël Dugas-Farcy had both shared on social networks a photo of themselves smiling in front of the Christmas tree.
“It’s atrocious. She seemed really nice when she wrote to me. She seemed like a girl with a big heart,” said Magali Jutras, a neighbor who had recently given her a pet.
An immediate neighbor also indicated that he had “never” been aware of any excesses or problems emanating from the couple’s apartment.
However, he found that the victim had “a sad face all the time” when they crossed paths, he said.
Photo taken from Facebook | Chloé Lauzon-Rivard
Dugas-Farcy had already been arrested in 2021 in a case of death threats in a marital context. However, he was acquitted the following year following legal proceedings.
– With Maxime Deland, Agence QMI, and TVA Nouvelles
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