‘They should be named’: Ontario family speaks after mother, baby murdered in home

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Rommelia Asuncion’s older sister.Rommelia and her five-month-old baby girl, Morgyn Rose Asuncion-Massicotte, were found in the basement apartment of the home they rented on Mackay Drive in Richmond Hill on Feb. 1, just after 4 p.m.Also found dead in the apartment, Rommelia’s common-law husband and the father to her child, 41-year-old Joshuah Lawrence Massicotte.

The coroner told them that Rommelia and Morgyn died from severe blunt deep stab wounds.York Regional Police have told them that there are no outstanding suspects, and the family believes Rommelia and Morgyn were murdered before Massicotte took his own life. The coroner also inferred it was a case of intimate partner violence.“In my heart and in my mind, I believe that they were murdered and then, after that he committed suicide.

I believe that my sister fought for her life and the safety of her child,” said Rebecca, tears dripping from her eyes.Rommelia, who worked at Magna International in Concord, Ont., on an assembly line, texted her mother, Divinia America, every day when she woke up.On Jan. 31, Divinia said Rommelia sent her a video of the baby and later sent a text in Tagalog that said, “We argued again.” Her mother replied to Rommelia asking what it was about and then her daughter stopped responding.

Divinia said she tried calling Rommelia but was unable to get an answer.The next day, Divinia called Rebecca at work and told her she was worried. “She was crying.

I think something happened to your sister because she’s not like this. She’s always responding to my messages, so we have to go to her house,” Rebecca recalled.After Rebecca got off work, she picked up her mother and they went to the Mackay Drive home and looked for the couple’s landlord.When the