UPDATE Double homicide in the citys west end
UPDATE 11 a.m.
Police say Cameron Rogers has been charged with two counts of first degree murder.
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UPDATE 9:30 a.m.
Ottawa Police have identified the double homicide victims as 69-year-old Dave Rogers and 63-year-old Merrill Rogers. They were found dead outside their home on Apeldoorn Ave. last night, following a tip from Montreal Police to check the residence.
The Ottawa Citizen is reporting Dave Rogers was a longtime former reporter with their organization, since the 1970s. He left the paper in 2010.
Montreal Police have a 22-year-old man in custody in connection with the case. The man is the Rogers' son, who allegedly called 911 in Montreal last night and confessed to killing his parents a few days earlier.
Ottawa Police are returning him to the capital today.
More to come.
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UPDATE 7:30 a.m.
Police now say the investigation into two bodies found in the west end Monday morning is a double homicide.
These are the city's 18th and 19th homicide victims of 2016.
More to come.
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One person is in custody after two bodies were discovered in the city's west end Monday night, according to Ottawa Police.
Police say the bodies of a man and a woman were found at a home at Apeldoorn Avenue and Meadowlands Drive at around 10 p.m. after Montreal Police contacted the Ottawa force with a tip.
The deaths are being investigated as suspicious. If confirmed to be homicides they will be be city's 18th and 19th of this year.
More to come.