Officers from the Emergency Task Force searched the Delta Chelsea Hotel this morning after three bodies were found on the 19th floor.
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COLIN MCCONNELL/TORONTO STAR
Officers from the Emergency Task Force searched the Delta Chelsea Hotel
this morning after three bodies were found on the 19th floor.
GTA triple murders
Sept. 11, 2006: Three people are found stabbed to death on the 19th
floor of the Delta Chelsea hotel on Gerrard St., just west of Yonge St.
A man and woman are pronounced dead at the scene. A second male is
taken to hospital, where he is later pronounced dead.
Feb. 9, 2006: Shao-Feng Liang, 38, and her children, 3-year-old Vivian
Yuen-Yee Chau and 5-month-old Ian Chau, are found slain in their
two-bedroom basement apartment on Chester Le Blvd. near Victoria Park
and Finch Ave. Huc Minh Chau, 40, is charged in the brutal slaying of
his family.
Sept 17, 2005: Joseph Colin Santos, 25, and Donald Jeffrey Rawluck, 24,
were shot to death near Albion and Weston Rds. Shane Garfield James,
26, was taken to Sunnybrook hospital where he died three days later.
Feb. 8, 2004: Zhu Xia Lin, 41, Yan Jun Liu, 35 and Xiao Chen Zhang, 40,
are shot dead at the Mirage Spa on Warden Ave. in Markham.
June 26, 1997: Nevenka Cindric, 41, Josip Cindric, 16, and Kristina
Cindric, 12, are shot by husband and father Janko Cindric, who then
turned the gun on himself in their Capri Rd. apartment in Etobicoke.
June 4, 1997: Max Zulauf, 75, torches his room at Sunnybrook Health
Sciences Centre. The blaze kills roommates John Davis, 74, and Fred
Robinson, 83, as well as Janina Zaorski, 90, who lived in a nearby
room. Zulauf is sentenced to two years less a day, plus three years
probation for manslaughter. The sentence is served at Sunnybrook.
May 20, 1996: Marcello Palma, 30, kills transvestite prostitute Shawn
Keegan, 19, transsexual prostitute Thomas "Deanna" Wilkinson, 31, and
female prostitute Brenda Ludgate, 25. All three had been shot with the
same gun. Palma was sentenced to life in prison.
June 10, 1992: Suhkdev "David" Singh, his wife, and his daughter
Deepika, 13, are found dead in their Holsworthy Cres. home in
Thornhill. It appears the husband and wife were bludgeoned to death. At
the time, the daughter's cause of death was not confirmed. Police were
searching at the time for the couple's 17-year-old son.
Aug. 16, 1991: Tin Wah Lui, 28, a nightclub hostess, is gunned down
outside the Pot of Gold in Chinatown. Lui is sprayed with bullets as
two men, Tony Pun and Asau Tran, a major Vietnamese crime boss, are
murdered. Friends said Lui, who was about to be married, was in the
wrong place at the wrong time.
June 16, 1991: Veronica Debbie Prashad, 30, David Prashad, 10, and
Preya Prashad, 6, are shot in the head by husband and father Nehru
Radha Prashad, who then shot himself at 2 Dalehurst Ave.
March 3, 1991: Sin Wai Chiu, 24, Duc Phu Hua, 38, and Thong Ta, 37, are
gunned down by "schoolboy killers" while dining on College St. Two
other men are wounded. A New York man and a teenager are charged with
first-degree murder.
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Hotel guests heard cries
Hotel guest hears woman's cry for help in hallway
Sep. 11, 2006. 02:09 PM
ISABEL TEOTONIO, CURTIS RUSH, AND DEBRA BLACK
STAFF REPORTERS
Toronto police say the three deaths at the Delta Chelsea Hotel on
Gerrard St. E. just west of Yonge St. may be a murder-suicide, but they
haven't ruled out the possibility that a fourth person was involved.
Detective Sgt. Steve Ryan told reporters just before noon "we still
don't know the motive. It's early in the investigation."
Hotel security on patrol found one man dead in the hallway near an
elevator on the 19th floor around 4:30 a.m.
Police arrived and found a trail of blood leading to a room on the 19th
floor.
Inside, police found one man dead on the bed and a woman's body on the
floor of the hotel room. Both bodies were fully clothed.
Police recovered a knife in the hotel room but Ryan said it's possible
other knives were used in the attacks.
There was no forced entry, nor was there a sign of a struggle, such as
overturned furniture, Ryan said.
The three victims are all Caucasian in their mid-thirties.
"It was a bloody mess," Ryan said, calling the scene "horrific."
He said that if a suspect had escaped, he or she would have been
covered in blood, but there was no hotel video to examine on that
floor.
Guests on the 19th floor reported loud noises in the hallway overnight
and saw blood stains down the hallway this morning.
"There was blood spattered everywhere down the hallway," guest Matthew
Hunter of Tampa Bay, Florida said this morning.
"I'm usually a sound sleeper, but I heard running noises that woke me
up," Hunter said.
Another guest, David Richardson of Watford, England, was sleeping in
room 1912 - a few doors down from room 1908, where he said the stabbing
took place - when he was awoken by an early-morning "commotion.".
"I heard scuffling along the corridor like somebody half drunk was in
the corridor leaning against the doors. Then after that I heard either
'Help me' or 'I'm hurt' and 'It's my heart'," said Richardson,
who added everything went silent after he heard this female voice.
"I thought it was a couple of drunks coming along the corridor," he
said. "I went back to cat-napping."
He said he was awoken again half an hour later by the sound of
walkie-talkies from the corridor, but didn't go out to see what the
noise was and fell back to sleep.
This morning he woke up to find that the whole area had been cordoned
off with yellow police tape.
This morning, guests came and went not realizing what had happened, and
hotel staff said that business was going on as usual.
"It was an isolated incident," Delta Chelsea spokesperson Tracy Ford
said.
A wing of the hotel's 19th floor has been closed for the
investigation. Police would not say how many guests were affected by
the lockdown.
The hotel is currently playing host to a six-day conference for more
than 400 Commonwealth magistrates and judges as well as many guests
visiting Toronto for the film festival.
Hotel guest Karen, who asked her last name not be used, is in town from
London, England, for the Toronto International Film Festival.
"This doesn't surprise me," said the woman, staying on the fourth
floor. "When I stayed in Los Angeles five years ago, someone was
stabbed outside the hotel then."
She said she arrived at the hotel at about 2 a.m. and fell asleep
without hearing anything unusual.
She spotted a few police officers in the front lobby of the hotel when
she woke up this morning but didn't think anything of it.
No one from the hotel had told her what had happened and said she had
spotted a few reporters outside but "assumed they were here for
someone famous."
This is the second bout of violence to erupt at a major Toronto hotel
this summer.
On July 3, Sean Erez, 36, of Quebec, was shot three times during an
apparent drug deal gone bad at the Westin Harbour Castle hotel.
With reporting from Linda Nguyen and Joanna Smith