7 adults, 2 kids killed in Canada ‘mass murder’

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Edmonton City Police Chief Rod Knecht arrives to speak about multiple homicides that took place at different scenes over night in Edmonton, Alberta, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. Police have confirmed the deaths of six adults and two young children in what Chief Ron Knecht called a "senseless mass murder." (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jason Franson)

Police investigate the scene where multiple deaths occurred overnight in Edmonton, Alberta, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jason Franson)

Police investigate a scene where a car rammed a truck and damaged a restaurant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. Edmonton City Police Chief Rod Knecht spoke Tuesday about multiple homicides that took place at different scenes over night in Edmonton, Alberta. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jason Franson)

Edmonton City Police Chief Rod Knecht speaks about multiple homicides that took place at different scenes over night in Edmonton, Alberta, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. Police have confirmed the deaths of six adults and two young children in what Chief Ron Knecht called a "senseless mass murder." (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jason Franson)

EDMONTON, Alberta — Police say they are investigating the deaths of seven adults and two young children at three separate but connected Edmonton-area crime scenes.

Police Chief Ron Knecht at a news conference Tuesday called the killings a “senseless mass murder.” He said the victims included a woman found Monday night by officers responding to a weapons complaint at a south Edmonton home.

The bodies of three more women, two men, a boy and a girl were discovered a few hours later at a northeast home where officers had checked on reports of a suicidal male earlier in the evening.

A man matching the description of the suicidal male was found dead in a restaurant in the Edmonton bedroom community of Fort Saskatchewan on Tuesday morning, Knecht said.