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The shooting death of a west-end man last year was the result of a domestic dispute that pitted a woman’s teenage son against her now dead lover and led to a family cover-up, police believe.

Homicide detectives Monday arrested 19-year-old Brayton Kennedy in the fatal shooting of Jacob Brock Thompson. Thompson, 40, was shot dead on Elmira Drive in the early morning hours of Sept. 24, 2016. Kennedy, the suspected triggerman, is expected to appear in Ottawa court Tuesday where he will face a murder charge.

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From the beginning of the investigation, police were attempting to make sense of a web of lies that kept an alleged killer out of reach.

Thompson was found shot and bleeding outside of the home he shared with his girlfriend, Geneva “Andrea” Kennedy, 39, and her two children: son Brayton — the prime suspect in the killing — and daughter Brianna Kennedy, 20. Police believe Brianna is also complicit in covering up what happened at 2208A Elmira Dr. around 2 a.m. on a Saturday morning.