A 16-year-old girl died in hospital late Monday night, hours after police in Mississauga received a call from a man saying he had killed his daughter.
Muhammad Parvez, 57, has been charged with murder in connection with the death of his daughter, Aqsa Parvez. He will appear Tuesday in a Brampton court.
The victim's 26-year-old brother, Waqas Parvez, has been charged with obstructing police.
Students at nearby Applewood Heights Secondary School in Mississauga said the teen had recently clashed with her family after ceasing to wear a hijab and adopting a more Western style of dress.
According to police, the chain of events began yesterday morning with a phone call from a home near Hurontario Street and Eglinton Avenue.
"At 7:55 a.m., we received a 911 call from a man claiming that he had just killed his daughter," Constable J.P. Valade of Peel Police said.
Constable Valade said when paramedics arrived at the single-family detached home on Longhorn Trail, they found a 16-year-old suffering from life-threatening injuries. The teenager was taken immediately to Credit Valley Hospital and later transferred in critical condition to the Hospital for Sick Children, where she died, according to police.
Some of the teen's schoolmates said the Grade 11 student had rebelled against her parents recently by refusing to wear a hijab.
Ms. Parvez ran away from home at the end of September, classmate Kate Daykin, 15, said.
"It's been happening for a while and she kept going back and forth. ... She said that it was too complicated living at home and her dad was hard to deal with."
Another classmate told The Globe and Mail that "her family was really religious, and I think her dad was angry because she never wore religious clothing."
Neighbours said they were stunned to see police cruisers and a police vehicle parked in front of the five-bedroom home.
"This is usually such a quiet neighbourhood," said a next-door neighbour who asked not to be named. "My thoughts and prayers are with the family."
One of the young woman's classmates communicated a more desperate view.
"Sixteen-year-old girls worry about makeup and boys, not about surviving," another classmate said. "It's not right. She's 16, damn it."
With a report from Dakshana Bascaramurty
