As Luis Santiago says, he was just reacting how any worried father would have done.
On Tuesday, Santiago was about to pick up his children in Lowertown when he suddenly found himself locked in a violent fight with a man accused of stabbing a woman until death.
He would end up hitting the man, placing him in a strangulator and finally subjecting him until the security guards and the police arrived at the scene.
“There are always children walking in this area, parents leave work, they collect their children in the nursery,” said Santiago, who shared the story of his heartbreaking meeting with CBC on Thursday.
“I was thinking about my head, you know, I need to do something.”
Death tagged a femicide
The Police and paramedics of Ottawa were called to a house in Heney Street in Lowertoown around 4:40 pm on Tuesday.
That was where they found Renée Dark, 51, with serious white weapon wounds.
The paramedics said Discry, an employee of the Canada Revenue Agency, was declared dead on the scene. They said that a second person was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
The next morning, the police announced that they had accused Oliver Denia, 24, of second degree murder and that he had described the death of Dark as femicide.
They also said that several members of the public helped to stop Denia, and some of them suffered minor injuries in the process. His actions, police said, were “quite heroic.”
Oliver Denia, 24, has been arrested for the stabbing death of Renée Darky. A warning that this video contains a graphic content.
With an orthopedic device on his right forearm, Santiago told CBC how he had been in his car on Tuesday afternoon when he saw a man uploading and lowering the street, hitting vehicles.
Santiago said that when the man approached his car, he hit the window and tried to open the door. It was then that Santiago called 911.
Then, the man moved away from his car, Santiago said, and went up to a house, kicking the door and breaking.
Still on the phone with the 911 dispatcher, Santiago said that he suddenly heard strong shouts from inside the house.
“I get out of my car and see a young man [woman] covered with blood and run out. And I see a boy with a knife, a large knife, a kitchen knife. “
‘Please, God, give me more strength’
When the man tried to chase the woman, he fell down the steps of the house, Santiago said.
Santiago said he hastened the man and kicked him and hit him, making him drop his knife. Then, the man chased Santiago back to his car, jumped to the driver’s seat and tried to start, but without success.
Santiago said he jumped next to the passenger and began hitting the man in his face.
The couple finally ended outside, where Santiago said he hit him again and put him in a strangulation until the Security officers of the community housing of Ottawa arrived and placed the handcuffed man.
“YO [had] He in a head key, and said: ‘Please, God, give me more strength.’ Because it really resisted. “
The emergency teams rushed to the scene, Where they found Aconio Inside the house and stopped man. Santiago was also urgently taken to the ambulance, he was covered with blood, and while injured his forearm in the fight and was beaten on the back of the head, he said he was not seriously injured.
The Ottawa police said the suspect in Tuesday’s homicide and the victim did not know each other.
Santiago said that the man he submitted seemed drugged. In later days, he said he has been contemplating how bad things could have resulted that afternoon.
“My daughter goes to school here. [in the] House right there, “he said.” So I’m thinking of children, and how many people could have hurt. “
