A sixty-year-old man was charged Thursday with the second-degree murder of his daughter which occurred the day before in Ormstown, in Montérégie.
Alain Caza briefly appeared by videoconference at the Salaberry-de-Valleyfield courthouse. “Yes,” he said twice when the judge asked him to confirm his identity and whether he understood French well.
The man is accused of killing his daughter, Amanda Caza, 34, at a residence on Cairns Street. Sûreté du Québec agents intervened on site in the morning of Wednesday after receiving a call for “an altercation between two people”. They found the lifeless body of Amanda Caza there and arrested her father, still there.
The young woman was the mother of an 8-year-old girl. According to her social networks, she had been working for a company developing cannabis-derived products in Huntingdon for a few weeks, after she resigned from her job at a bank branch.
Several people paid tribute to him on his account Thursday morning. “I can’t believe it was his last with her,” wrote one of her friends under a photo of Amanda Caza and her daughter at a creamery.
The reasons behind this crime remain unclear. Alain Caza has pleaded not guilty for the moment and will remain detained pending the next steps in his case.
Still according to photos published during the holiday season, last year, the relationship between the father and his daughter seemed to be in good shape, the man holding his granddaughter in his arms.