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A Toronto man who shot three members of his family and burned their corpses in October 2007 has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 22 years.
Bao Mac pleaded guilty in November 2010 to three counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of his wife, Zu Ling He, her 22-year-old daughter, Qian Jenny Zhao, and his four-year-old daughter, Lisa Mac.
Crown attorney Michelle Rumble said at Mac's sentencing hearing in a Newmarket, Ont., court Tuesday that Mac "brutally and ruthlessly murdered the three people who should have been able to trust him most."
She said Mac had intended to kill himself after he murdered his wife, stepdaughter and daughter but in the end, didn't go through with it.
"The innocent were slaughtered, and the coward spared himself," Rumble told Ontario Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Quinlan.
In a joint sentencing submission, the Crown and the defence requested that parole not be granted before Mac had served 22 years of his sentence.
Quinlan called Mac's crime "heinous, callous and senseless" before sentencing him.
Although he pleaded guilty, Mac — who showed no emotion through the sentencing hearing — has not expressed remorse or apologized to surviving family members. He has offered few clues as to why he brutally murdered his family, Rumble said.
Bodies badly burnt
"Why all of this carnage?" she said. "Why this horror? We still don't really know, because Bao Mac hasn't told us."
Mac's wife had expressed a desire to get out of the marriage, and her daughter had wanted to live a more independent life, Rumble said. Mac did say he killed his four-year-old daughter because she wouldn't understand and no one would be left to care for her, Rumble said.
In the days and weeks leading up to the murders, Mac had threatened his family, even saying, "I'm going to kill this family one day," Rumble told the court. His wife was afraid for her life and the children's lives, the Crown attorney said.
On Oct. 14, 2007, Mac pressed a revolver against He's head and shot her at close range while she and their young daughter sat in the family van outside their Toronto home. He also fired a bullet into the head of his little girl, though it's not clear who he shot first, Rumble said.
He then waited until his stepdaughter got home, shot her in the head, dragged her bleeding body out to the van and put her on top of her dead mother's body.
Mac drove the van to a rural area in King Township, where he set it on fire, burning the bodies so badly that not only was identification difficult, but police thought for days that there were only two bodies inside the charred vehicle.
Police also found a marijuana grow-op in Mac's house.
He has been in custody since a warrant for his arrest was executed on Nov. 4, 2007, following a lengthy hospital stay that included a drug-induced coma. Police said he was suffering from severe burns.
That Mac was able to "coldly and methodically" shoot and kill the people who trusted him most speaks to his level of dangerousness, Rumble said.
"What more is he capable of?" she said.
Bao Mac pleaded guilty in November 2010 to three counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of his wife, Zu Ling He, her 22-year-old daughter, Qian Jenny Zhao, and his four-year-old daughter, Lisa Mac.
Crown attorney Michelle Rumble said at Mac's sentencing hearing in a Newmarket, Ont., court Tuesday that Mac "brutally and ruthlessly murdered the three people who should have been able to trust him most."
She said Mac had intended to kill himself after he murdered his wife, stepdaughter and daughter but in the end, didn't go through with it.
"The innocent were slaughtered, and the coward spared himself," Rumble told Ontario Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Quinlan.
In a joint sentencing submission, the Crown and the defence requested that parole not be granted before Mac had served 22 years of his sentence.
Quinlan called Mac's crime "heinous, callous and senseless" before sentencing him.
Although he pleaded guilty, Mac — who showed no emotion through the sentencing hearing — has not expressed remorse or apologized to surviving family members. He has offered few clues as to why he brutally murdered his family, Rumble said.
Bodies badly burnt
"Why all of this carnage?" she said. "Why this horror? We still don't really know, because Bao Mac hasn't told us."
Mac's wife had expressed a desire to get out of the marriage, and her daughter had wanted to live a more independent life, Rumble said. Mac did say he killed his four-year-old daughter because she wouldn't understand and no one would be left to care for her, Rumble said.
In the days and weeks leading up to the murders, Mac had threatened his family, even saying, "I'm going to kill this family one day," Rumble told the court. His wife was afraid for her life and the children's lives, the Crown attorney said.
On Oct. 14, 2007, Mac pressed a revolver against He's head and shot her at close range while she and their young daughter sat in the family van outside their Toronto home. He also fired a bullet into the head of his little girl, though it's not clear who he shot first, Rumble said.
He then waited until his stepdaughter got home, shot her in the head, dragged her bleeding body out to the van and put her on top of her dead mother's body.
Mac drove the van to a rural area in King Township, where he set it on fire, burning the bodies so badly that not only was identification difficult, but police thought for days that there were only two bodies inside the charred vehicle.
Police also found a marijuana grow-op in Mac's house.
He has been in custody since a warrant for his arrest was executed on Nov. 4, 2007, following a lengthy hospital stay that included a drug-induced coma. Police said he was suffering from severe burns.
That Mac was able to "coldly and methodically" shoot and kill the people who trusted him most speaks to his level of dangerousness, Rumble said.
"What more is he capable of?" she said.
