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The man believed to have shot his former partner and her father at an Almonte home this week was facing “financial pressures” but “all he wanted in life was for his family to be together,” his family says.

A statement issued Saturday night by the family of Travis Porteous, 33, describes the Carleton Place man as a loving father from a “tight knit middle class family.”

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Porteous died this week in an apparent murder-suicide at the home of Bernard Cameron, 65, the father of Porteous’s former common-law partner.

Police believe Porteous arrived at the stately Almonte home and got into an argument with his former partner, Sarah, the mother of his two children.

Cameron intervened and Porteous shot the Mississippi Mills councillor and former school teacher dead, police believe.

Porteous is then believed to have shot Sarah Cameron, 28, seriously injuring her. Finally, police say, he turned the gun on himself.