More details on stabbing death of woman in Ottawa Ottawa Police Deputy Chief Trish Ferguson held a press conference at the Elgin Street station Friday to discuss Thursday’s case of “femicide.” A young mother was stabbed to death in front of her two children at a local park by a man who had a domestic relationship with a family member of the victim.

An Ottawa mother of four is being remembered as a sweet, caring person whose violent death has left the local community in shock and mourning.

Ottawa police say a Montreal man has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing of a woman on Thursday in front of two of her children.