Five killed in stabbing at party in Canada

(Vatican Radio) In Canada, the son of a Calgary police officer was charged in the fatal stabbing of five people at a house in what is being called the worst mass slaying in the western Canadian city's history.

Matthew Douglas de Grood, a recent graduate of the University of Calgary, picked up a large knife shortly after arriving at the party and stabbed the victims one by one shortly after 1 a.m. Tuesday.

Calgary Police Chief Rick Hanson said each victim was stabbed several times.

``Was there anything that precipitated the event? Was there something that anyone had done that anyone could have taken as an insult or an affront to this individual? To the best of our knowledge right now, there's nothing to indicate anything like that happened,'' Hanson said.

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