'It just breaks my heart': friends grieve as mother dead, son charged

Friends of Abigail Ootoova are grieving her death as a tragedy but say that Jed Ootoova, the son accused of second-degree murder in the gifted Inuit artist’s killing on Saturday, would never have meant to harm her.
“They’re both wonderful people, just beautiful people,” Donn Hope, who has lived in the same Vanier low-rise as the mother and son since they moved in a decade ago, said on Sunday morning.
Hope, who also volunteers at the same Anglican church where 54-year-old