Speaking to SooToday, Angie's loved ones share memories of a woman who was ‘afraid of nothing’ — and their newfound mission to protect others from intimate partner violence
Every morning for the past week since their daughter was killed in her Tancred Street home, Brian and Suzanne Sweeney have woke up crying. But the couple promises, with the help of Angie’s friends and with the support of the public, they will push governments to change laws, to take intimate partner violence seriously and prevent a tragedy like this from happening ever again.
Still reeling emotionally from Angie’s death, the Sweeneys, Stewart and Buczel are choosing to not think of her as a victim but remember her for the good times. Angie had been working through a number of health issues in life that required multiple surgeries and a hip replacement, but once healed she got right back on her mountain bike to tour the trials in the city and advance her love of health and wellness.
“I said just watch his actions and be sure to have a conversation with him, you deserve to be happy,” said Stewart, reciting a text message thread with Angie from March 2020. Instead, Angie continued to see Hallaert, but laid down the law that to be in a relationship with her he had to be clean and sober.
“I looked him in the eyes when I first met him and when I was alone with my daughter the next day I said I don’t like his eyes — that’s exactly what I said — I don’t like his eyes,” said Suzanne. “And I never liked him from then — I had to tolerate him, but I did not like him ever.” “From what I have gathered, I think he went on a binge on meth because apparently from what I heard through a solid grapevine is he failed his test at Algoma due to meth. I think after he and my daughter had split up,” said Brian. “My daughter always kept test kits on hand for drugs because he was a drug addict before when she first met him — he was into heavy coke and probably meth too.”
SooToday is not revealing what her daughter experienced that night, but the family says she followed her mother’s instructions to the letter and they are proud of her actions. From Tancred Street, Hallaert drove his pickup to the Second Line East address, where police said he killed the three children — aged six, seven and 12 — injured another woman before killing himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Brian’s plan includes a mandatory 48-hour holding of someone accused of intimate partner violence. In that time, a psychiatric evaluation and drug test can be administered and any weapons the accused has can be removed from the situation. Brian said he understands the province will need to take action, but so will the federal government in Ottawa.
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