you don't think could happen so close to you, and it really makes you re-evaluate things,' said Madison Bach, who lives in a house down the street with her husband and their six-month-old daughter, Ava.īach and Ava sat out on a picnic blanket for most of the morning Thursday as OPP vehicles came and went. Thursday's deadly shooting unsettled what residents described as a picturesque community about 50 kilometres east of Ottawa, where many young families raise children and conversations slip between French and English. A long gun was found at the scene, Carrique added.

They arrested Bellefeuille at the home without injuring him, and he appeared to be alone at the residence, police said.

One officer was seriously injured and is in hospital while the other injured officer has since been released and is recovering at home, police said.īy the time a second group of officers arrived, they knew that their colleagues who got there first had stopped answering radio calls.

'Upon arrival, three of our officers were ambushed and shot,' Carrique said. For some reason, they called for backup before they approached the house. Thursday after residents reported hearing gunshots, police said. Mueller and the two other officers went to the home in Bourget at around 2 a.m. 'He's described by his colleagues as a coach, a mentor, someone that everybody looked up to, the glue that held his shift together, the best leader that many people ever had the privilege of working for.' 'Our hearts are broken,' Carrique said at a news conference, noting Mueller was a 21-year veteran of the force. The OPP Association said the officer had a wife and two children. OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique said Mueller will be remembered as a well-respected officer and a 'family' man. Eric Mueller, whom the OPP described as an exemplary officer, was killed after responding to a report of a disturbance at a home in Bourget, Ont.Īlain Bellefeuille, a 39-year-old Bourget resident, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in the case. An Ontario Provincial Police officer who died early Thursday was 'ambushed and shot' along with two others when they arrived at a home east of Ottawa, the force said, as local residents expressed shock at the violence in their typically quiet community.

First the Dead by Tim Downs