A father believed to have killed his two young children in Quebec’s Lanaudière region had been arrested and released by provincial police two days prior to the incident, a longtime friend of the family tells Radio-Canada.
Ianik Lamontagne, 46, and three-year-olds Antoine and Tristan, whom sources identified as the deceased, were found dead in a Notre-Dame-des-Prairies residence on Saturday. Police are investigating the case as a double murder-suicide.
Patrick Boucher said Lamontagne called him to vent last Wednesday, saying he had been arrested in front of his children for harassing his estranged wife — the children’s mother — from whom he’d been separated about a year.
Boucher says Lamontagne was released the same day of
