Canadian man charged with killing family

A Canadian father has been charged with murdering his wife and his two young daughters.

Jacob Daniel Forman, 34, was charged with three counts of second-degree murder after the three bodies were found inside the family’s Kelowna home on Tuesday.

His wife Clara, and daughters Karena and Yasenia have been named as his alleged victims.

A Vernon man (who did not want to be named) knew Forman eight years ago when they both lived in Armstrong. Both plumbers, they carpooled to work for a few months for the Kelowna General Hospital project.

“He seemed like a really nice guy,” said Forman’s co-worker. “When I seen the picture I was in shock. The whole time I worked with him I didn’t ever see him get mad or upset. A really happy go lucky cheerful guy. But that was a long time ago, so who knows?”

He had even met Clara once or twice and went for wings with the couple one night.

“He seemed like a good family man,” he said.

Neighbours of the Bolotzky Court property say Forman, his two elementary-school age girls and wife moved to the neighbourhood in the last year.

Jeff McLeod often saw Forman, a plumber, going to and from work, from his vantage point across the street and said that the family was very quiet.

“It’s shocking, the whole neighbourhood is in shock. We hardly ever see them. They were really quiet, like ghosts.” said McLeod. In the lead up to police arriving at the home and marking it off with tape, McLeod said he saw and heard nothing out of the ordinary.

Forman’s wife is listed on social media as Clara Forman, and friends and loved ones are already expressing grief and confusion.

“Please pray for my family. We are shocked and devastated by the sensless loss of these three beautiful souls,” wrote Mav Gonzalez Barrena, on Twitter.

“It’s hard to even fathom that this is really happening.”

Clara Forman was originally from Mexico and worked at GoodLife Fitness, she wrote on Facebook that she met Forman 12 years ago.

“Met in January, started dating in July, engaged Oct. 27 married three weeks later on Nov. 11 at sunset. When I married Jacob Forman I left everything I knew to come to Canada and build a life,” she wrote, Nov. 11, 2015.

“God blessed our feeble efforts with good jobs, good friends, a great church family and most importantly, two of the best little humans a couple of people could ask for. Ten years later you are still the person I want to grow old with.”

Forman has no previous criminal record in B.C.. He was raised in Quesnel and social media indicates he may have lived in Vernon.