Winnipeg police had searched for man found dead in East Selkirk triple shooting

CBC has learned Winnipeg police were out searching for Wozney sometime before 8 p.m in Winnipeg's River East area, after his wife expressed concern for his well-being Monday night.

Debbie Fiebelkorn, the mayor of the Rural Municipality of St. Clements, where East Selkirk is located, said the community is devastated. 

"We are very close-knit, small community and I think that this is really going to have an effect on the community and especially on the families involved," said Fiebelkorn.

CBC's also learned that the three deceased all leave behind children.

"There are a number of kids without parents now and parents without children. It's a real tragedy that it happened in our small community," Fiebelkorn said.

Wozney was a physiotherapist with Selkirk-based Physiotherapy on the Red, where Rach-Gregoire worked as the office manager. RCMP have remained mum about many details.

Although they won't say whether it was a murder-suicide, police say there are no other suspects. The Gregoires were well-known in the community, about 40 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg. Fiebelkorn said her children grew up with the kids of Rach-Gregoire, who always had a smile on her face.

"I was very, very upset. I mean, they've been members of the community for a long time — very outgoing, very friendly," Fiebelkorn said.

She said police told her two of the bodies were found on one side of the house while the third was located on the other side. People are still coming to terms with the deaths and it will take a long time to recover, she added.

"Everybody is going to try and pick up the pieces and try and move on."

The ripple effects of the tragedy are also being felt in the city of Selkirk, across the Red River from East Selkirk.

"This whole area, everybody knows everybody. A lot of people are related," said Selkirk Mayor Larry Johannson.

"It's the kind of area where you say, 'Hi,' to people in the supermarket.You wave to people when you are driving around. So this really, really affects everybody. Everybody has low hearts today."

Johannson has been in Selkirk his whole life and said there was a palpable feeling of sadness like he'd never felt before.

"You could feel it in the town, in the city today. You could just feel that sense that this is a tragedy, wounds that will take a while to heal, especially in these communities," he said.

"The community has to heal as a whole. We have to get through this."

Debbie Fiebelkorn, the mayor of the Rural Municipality of St. Clements, where East Selkirk is located, says everyone is struggling with the tragedy.