'Now, she can't be a mom': Family of woman allegedly killed by ex says motherhood was everything to her
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When Savannah Rose Kulla-Davies drove off to meet her ex-partner on Tuesday, her father says he had no idea that would be the last time he would see her.
“I wouldn't have let her go,” he told CBC Toronto in an interview on Friday. “I miss her terribly. And I don't see that changing anytime soon.”
Kulla-Davies, 29, was shot dead that day in the parking lot of a Brampton, Ont., plaza. Her ex-partner, Anthony Deschepper, 38, allegedly killed her before abducting their 17-month-old daughter, prompting an Amber Alert. He was later fatally shot by police at a gas bar in Niagara Falls, Ont.
Until then, Tuesday felt like a normal day, Davies said.
Kulla-Davies got a drink from Starbucks and then made her way to the Brampton plaza to meet her ex-partner, said her brother, Spencer Porter. Now, it's in that plaza that flowers are piling up in her memory.
The purpose of seeing Deschepper was to allow him to spend time with their daughter again, her father said.
“That probably shows a bit of Savannah's character," Davies said. "Even though they were not together, she still wanted to make her daughter available to the girl's father."
Her father and brother said Kulla-Davies was passionate about dance and worked as a social worker for Peel Region before she became a mother of four children.
"She decided that motherhood was going to be her thing. And that's what she's done very successfully."
"She loved being a mom and now she can't be a mom," Davies said.
Three of her Kulla-Davies's children were from a previous partner, while the youngest was at the centre of the Amber Alert on Tuesday and later found safe, Davies said.
Davies and his family now plan to petition to the court next week to become the official guardians of her youngest, he said.
When she grows older, he said, he'll tell Kulla-Davies's daughter what a wonderful, caring and kind person her mother was.
“She'll ask her brothers and they'll back that up too, because they loved her as well.”
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