Homicide victim was killed by ex-partner while trying to retrieve belongings, family says

CBC News

· Posted: May 01, 2025 11:22 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

WARNING: This nonfiction contains details of intimate spouse violence.

The stepfather of a young pistillate who was unfortunate of a homicide successful Winnipeg's West End earlier this week says she was killed portion trying to retrieve idiosyncratic belongings from a erstwhile partner's home.

Nadia Flett-Carriere, 22, and a 27-year-old antheral died aft they were recovered successful aesculapian distress astatine a location connected Sherburn Street, betwixt Portage and St. Matthews avenues, conscionable aft 2 p.m. Monday, constabulary said.

On Wednesday, constabulary said the incidental was a murder-suicide and identified Flett-Carriere. They did not sanction the antheral who killed her due to the fact that his decease means helium can't beryllium charged.

Flett-Carriere was a subordinate of God's Lake First Nation who lived successful Winnipeg. She had been surviving with her parents and 5 siblings for the past six months, aft separating from her ex-boyfriend and moving retired of the location they had shared, according to her stepfather, Ken Everard.

He says Flett-Carriere went to prime up immoderate of her belongings from the location connected Monday afternoon. Investigators judge Flett-Carriere died from injuries sustained during an battle by her erstwhile partner, who past took his ain life, helium said.

"Her existent fellow had offered to spell with her to bash this, and she felt similar it was thing she could bash connected her own," Everard told CBC News connected Thursday.

"We're each profoundly shocked. No 1 would person foreseen thing similar this happening, and this is the worldly of nightmares."

Paden Shelton, Flett-Carriere's fellow astatine the clip of her death, says she thought her ex would beryllium astatine enactment erstwhile she went determination connected Monday, but helium was home.

"She texted maine and a mates friends were letting america cognize that helium was there, and she was conscionable going to effort and get arsenic overmuch packed up arsenic she could," helium said.

Police recovered the 2 successful aesculapian distress little than an hr later, helium said, adding that it was an unexpected and devastating stroke to her household and friends.

"Her mom's truly torn up close now."

'We'll emotion her forever'

Shelton said Flett-Carriere described her ex-boyfriend arsenic unstable and that helium treated her severely passim their relationship.

Shelton started dating Flett-Carriere successful December. He called her the most caring and sweetest idiosyncratic he'd ever met.

"She lives connected [through] each of her household and friends. We each miss her precise much, and we'll emotion her forever."

Everard remembers his stepdaughter arsenic a blessed idiosyncratic who loved to laugh.

"We were enjoying our clip with her. We were enjoying her being backmost home, and benignant of rebuilding roots and instauration astatine home, with us, again," helium said.

"Unfortunately, she's not going to person the accidental to fulfil a batch of the things that she was hoping to do, and we're going to retrieve her arsenic the beauteous idiosyncratic she was."

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