Family and friends gathered on Saturday to pay their final respects to Dr. Ferdinand Mejilla, the 50-year-old chiropractor shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide in Burlington, Ont.
Dr. Johanna Carlo went to school with Mejilla more than 25 years ago at Palmer College of Chiropractic in Iowa and described the chiropractor as a “great guy.”
“He lights up the room,” she said.
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Mejillia was killed on March 16 in his Burlington chiropractic clinic at 195 Plains Road East.
Halton Regional Police said the suspect in the shooting, 44-year-old David Williamson, was the husband of a clinic employee and a one-time patient of Mejilla’s.
Williamson suffered a single self-inflicted gunshot wound and died in hospital on Monday.
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Inside the Mississauga church, the pews were filled with family and friends.
“It was a beautiful, beautiful service,” Carlo said.
Mejila was the father of five children and an online fundraising campaign has been launched to raise funds for his kids.
— With files from Adam Miller and David Shum
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