Another tragedy

June 28, 2005, 04:34:17 PM

I listen to a London online radio station fm96.com and they were talking about this shooting that happened yesterday.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2005/06/28/1107811-sun.html

A terrified, barefoot nine-year-old girl frantically knocked on neighbours' doors to get help for her mother and two siblings held hostage yesterday by a man inside an east London home.

By the time gunfire subsided at 682 Princess Ave., four people were dead, two police officers were shot and a city was in shock over the slayings of a woman, her 13-year-old daughter and five-year-old son.

Police didn't identify the victims yesterday.

But relatives confirmed that Halina Czuba, her 13-year-old daughter, Julia, and five-year-old son, Michal, died after gunfire erupted at their house just east of Adelaide Street about 2:30 a.m.

The body of a man also was found inside the home. The province's Special Investigations Unit said the man, who hasn't been identified, died of a gunshot wound.

Halina's husband, Jan, is a trucker who was in the United States at the time of the deadly shooting.

Could you imagine coming home after that?