Mathew Redhead awoke yesterday in Grenada to the news that his 24-year-old wife had been killed in Toronto. "Who did this?" he asked yesterday, his voice choked with tears. "Who would want to do this to my wife? "My wife doesn't hang around with violent people. Nothing like that." Cimeron Doncaster, 24, died in her basement apartment early yesterday in what police are calling a murder-suicide. A man was also found dead at the Lansdowne Avenue apartment, hanged by his own shoelaces. His relationship to Ms. Doncaster is not known. Ms. Doncaster's seven-year-old son Mathew Jr. found his mother's body, and led his four-year-old brother Leon and three-year-old sister Jade to safety a block away. The children were wearing only their pyjamas and were barefoot. Just after 2 a.m. they arrived at a friend's house down the street. Mr. Redhead, 37, was deported from Canada in 2001 when his wife was pregnant with their youngest child. He said he doesn't know whether he will be allowed to return to Canada to see his children, even in these exceptional circumstances. "I don't think they're going to give me the chance of coming back," he said, referring to Canadian immigration officials. He said he has been trying for some time to be reunited with his family. "My wife was going to file over for me, but she don't have a job. She could not help me," he said. "I want to come back to be with my kids." The couple married in 1998, Mr. Redhead said, but he was forced out of Canada because he did not have a visa. Yesterday morning, the children's uncle, Carlyle Redhead, rushed to the scene searching for news about them, and wondering what happened to his sister-in-law. "Who is this monster?" he asked. He said his brother had asked him to find the children. He was worried they might be removed by the authorities and eventually put up for adoption. The children are now staying with members of their mother's family. In the backyard where Ms. Doncaster used to watch her children play, signs of the family's life together remained. A two-month-old message scrawled in white chalk saying "Happy Birthday Jade" was still visible, and a red and yellow tricycle sat parked next to a stroller adorned with drawings of lions and giraffes. On a nearby chair, a day-old newspaper flapped in the wind. Toronto Police said Ms. Doncaster's body showed obvious signs of trauma. It is hoped a postmortem today will determine the cause of death. "It appears that the mother was murdered and at this time we believe the male committed suicide thereafter," Detective Mark Mendelson said. Det. Mendelson praised seven-year-old Mathew for taking his brother and sister to safety. "He's quite an amazing young man," he said. "He's well beyond his years. He understood what he saw, he understood what had happened and he understood what to do to make his siblings safe." "He did all of that in the middle of the night, in the dark." Next-door neighbour Sophia Duarte agrees that Mathew is very mature for his age. "I'm so shocked," she said. "Especially for the kids. The poor kids. They will grow up without their mother." SOURCE: THE GLOBEANDMAIL.COM