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Days after police found a family of four dead in their Harrow home, more is being learned about the parents and their two children as people in the southwestern Ontario town continue to mourn them and honor them.
The deaths came to light Thursday afternoon after Ontario’s Essex County Provincial Police (OPP) responded to the home on County Road 13. Police held a news conference Friday, acknowledging the “unimaginable tragedy,” but did not release much. of information. They also said there was no threat to public safety.
As of Monday afternoon, they had not given any names or details about the circumstances of their deaths.
At the weekend, at a vigil, members of the community mourned the loss of the family and identified them as Carly and Steve Walsh, their daughter Madison, 13, and son, Hunter, 8.
Harrow, near Lake Erie, is about a 45-minute drive south of Windsor.
Carly’s uncle, Glenn Stannard, a former Windsor police chief who attended the vigil, expressed the extended family’s gratitude to the community and thanked the investigators.
“The coming weeks are going to be extremely difficult,” Stannard told the crowd.
The family lived at 1200 County Road 13. According to real estate records, Carly and Steve Walsh purchased the property in 2009.
The large lot has a house and multi-car garage that are hidden from the road by trees and foliage.
Carly’s Facebook page states that she is the assistant manager at Paglione Estate Winery, and a “mother, friend, worker” and “wife trying to run an easy homestead in the county.”
Two days before the deaths, she shared more than a dozen photos of her children taking part in a Harrow Minor Soccer match. A photo album on her Facebook page is titled “What 2024 Will Bring!” and contains celebratory images.
Madison and Hunter attended St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School in Harrow. According to Carly’s Facebook page, they were heavily involved in football and enjoyed other sports, such as running and ice skating.
Members of the community took part in a vigil in Harrow on Sunday night after four family members were found dead at their home on Thursday.
In a post marking Madison’s 13th birthday in May, Carly wrote: “Can’t believe we have a teenage girl in the house.”
The vigil, held on a football field on Sunday, was organized by Carly’s friends Treena Upcott, Victoria Cranston and Essex Mayor Sherry Bondy.
Upcott said Carly was involved in the Catholic school attended by her children, among other causes.
Darrow Woods, pastor of Harrow United Church who was also at the vigil, said: “We wish things were different. We may try to make sense of something that makes no sense.
“We have questions that I would like answers to [to]. I wish there were words I could say that would take away all the confusion, and the pain and the loss.”
A child at the vigil who identified herself as “Madi’s best friend” expressed her love for the family, speaking through tears. “I want them to fly high.”
As of Monday afternoon, the Walsh family’s funeral arrangements had not yet been made.
‘We must help each other’
Community fundraising for the family continues, with Essex Mayor Sherry Bondy saying the Harrow Rotary Club has been collecting donations to help with funeral costs.
Rotary Club representatives will be accepting donations at the Open Streets event in downtown Harrow on Friday, between 5 pm and 8 pm ET.
“In the midst of chaos, when things that aren’t supposed to happen, happen – we do what we can do,” Woods, the pastor, told the vigil.
“When the worst things happen, worse than we can imagine… we have to encourage each other to be our best. We have to help each other. We all need to see that there is still much good in this world.”
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