It’s been a decade since five young Calgarians were killed at a Brentwood house party, and family and friends are still trying to heal.
Tributes honouring their lives can be seen throughout the city, and now they can be heard in music.
Music written by two of the victims, Zackariah Rathwell and Josh Hunter, is being re-released on Monday, April 15, 2024 — the 10-year anniversary of their passing.
The pair’s former bandmates Kyle Tenove and Barry Mason, say the original album — Goodnight Icarus — was released mere days before the tragic events of April 15, 2014.
The musical makings are one of many tributes to Rathwell, Hunter, Jordan Segura, Kaiti Perras, and Lawrence Hong, who are remembered as the Brentwood Five.
The Quinterra Legacy Garden, an interactive musical garden and performance space, was completed in 2020 by Parks Foundation and families of the five to reflect the “hope, possibility, creativity and the life-affirming qualities that each of our five amazing children embodied.”
There are also a number of scholarships honouring the individuals at the University of Calgary.
Rathwell, Hunter, Segura, Perras, and Hong were fatally stabbed by Matthew de Grood, who was found to be suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia and found not criminally responsible for the deaths in 2016.
De Grood is now reportedly living at an unknown Calgary group home.