‘I couldn’t believe it’: Friends in shock after Ontario man 1 of 3 victims in killing spree

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Niagara Falls park by a stranger last Wednesday afternoon, who has also been accused of killing someone in Toronto the day before and someone in Hamilton the day after.Cunningham’s death, a daylight attack in a park toward the city’s edge, is being treated as a random attack by police.“It didn’t make any sense,” Andreas Priftis said in an interview with Global News. Priftis and his wife, Haven, say they got to know the Cunninghams because their children have gone to school together since kindergarten.“Lance and I worked in the same building together,” Priftis continued. “He was a chef at the casino.

He was such a lovely man and he loved his daughter and it’s just so senseless.”On Wednesday, Cunningham took his two dogs for a walk at John Allan Park before picking up his 13-year-old daughter from a nearby school sometime before 3 p.m.Niagara Regional Police say that, it was around then at 2:49 p.m., they received a call for a disturbance in the park. When they arrived, they found Cunningham suffering from critical injuries. Despite medical intervention, he was pronounced dead at the scene.Police searched the area but failed to find anyone.

That night, just before midnight, they put out a news release, which said “there is no information to suggest that there is an immediate threat to safety for the public stemming from this incident.”Andreas Haven Priftis were stunned when they learned Cunningham was the victim.“I said to my mom, ‘You won’t believe this, someone was murdered in the park across from the school,'” Haven said.“I had no idea at the time, no idea, that it was Lance. And then it came out it was him. I didn’t even believe it.