By Kenneth Jackson
APTN National News
All Faron Cook wanted to know was who killed his daughter Kelly Morrisseau.
He died never knowing.
Cook was found in his Ottawa apartment earlier this week. It’s believed he died over the weekend of a heart attack.
“He’d call me and talk about Kelly,” said Warren Morrisseau, Kelly’s uncle who lives on the Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba where she is buried.
Morrisseau, 27, was murdered Dec. 10, 2006. She was stabbed more than 20 times and her killer left her for dead on the pavement of a Gatineau parking lot.
When paramedics found Morrisseau she was still alive but died a short time later in hospital. She was seven months pregnant. Her baby also died.
Despite a reward, police have not found her killer.
Cook, who was in his early 50s, met Morrisseau’s mother Lisa Morrisseau in Sagkeeng when she was just a toddler and raised her as his own child.
“Kelly never knew anybody else as her dad. He raised her as his own daughter,” said Warren Morrisseau, adding Cook’s only wish was to be buried next to Kelly in Sagkeeng.
Details of that are still being worked out.
He had another wish.
Cook was expecting to receive his residential school settlement soon. If something was to happen to him he asked his lawyer to give the money to his daughter Farris, who he and Lisa Morrisseau had together.
“He just went to a residential hearing. He was expecting his money any day,” said Warren Morrisseau, adding Cook was originally from Sandy Bay First Nation in Manitoba.
APTN spoke to Cook a couple months before his death.
“It’s been a while. It’s taken too long,” Cook said Feb. 14 who was critical of Gatineau police for not solving Morrisseau’s murder.
But there was possibly good news on the horizon.
Gatineau police said they were going to run the DNA of Ottawa resident Marc Leduc who had been charged with two murders in Ottawa just days before.
The results of the test weren’t immediately known Friday. Kelly’s cousin Roxanne Morrisseau said the family had no comment.
Police have made no announcements and the detective on the case wasn’t available.
As for Cook, Warren Morrisseau said in death he knows the killer.
“He’s with Kelly now. They both know,” he said.
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I knew this woman and her family, RIP.