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“From an investigative perspective, we are glad that he did that, that the community isn’t on pins and needles,” he told a news conference.

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The four victims — two men and two women — and the person who turned himself in were all known to each other.

Renate Winter, the wife of the first victim — 71-year-old Rudi Winter — said the shootings were likely linked to a neighbourhood dispute. She said she and her husband lived on Cornwall Drive alongside the estranged wife of the man who had turned himself in.

Renate said she had a frosty relationship with the estranged wife.

“We cut a tree down in our yard and she had a fit; so anytime we did anything she had a fit, so we don’t talk to her,” said Renate. “She called the cops because my husband was putting rocks in between our properties, and maybe his big toe went on her property.”

A neighbour who gave his name only as Greg was home at the time of the Cornwall Drive shootings and said he heard multiple shots followed by a “blood-curdling scream.”

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Daniel Kenward lives a few houses down from where the first shooting occurred, at Lakeview Street and Heales Avenue, and said that after he heard gunshots, he saw a man lying on the grass outside. The man appeared to be older with white or grey hair, he said. In a photograph seen by Postmedia News, the victim was lying on his back, inside the duplex property between the chain-link fence and the side of the home.

About 45 minutes later, Kenward heard a sound of “anguish,” and his wife looked out the window and saw an older woman hugging someone, he added. “I don’t know what her relationship was to him or anything like that. I just know she was upset. You know that sound.”