Saturday, December 12, 2020

People had reason to ‘hurt’ Barry and Honey Sherman, son tells Toronto police in early days of the investigation

 

Barry Honey Sherman crime Toronto pharmaceuticals business family

In the days after they were found dead, Barry and Honey Sherman’s son Jonathon told police there were people who had a reason to “hurt” his parents, according to newly released police documents.

“Jonathon says that his parents were complicated people and that there are people out there who would have a grudge against them and would have a reason to hurt them,” according to police notes of a statement Jonathon Sherman gave to police on Dec. 23, 2017, the week after the Sherman bodies were discovered.

In this first of two statements Jonathon gave to police over a two-day period, he describes his father as “complicated, brilliant, lacking in emotional and social intelligence, unfiltered but genuine.” Jonathon describes his mother as “smart, abrasive, high energy, in your face and blunt, but not in an evil way.”

Who he suggests might have had reason to kill his parents remains under seal. His three siblings (and Sherman friends who are interviewed) also suggest “persons of interest” who might be responsible for the murders in their statements to police and the identity of those people also remains under seal.

Jonathon’s statement is part of a series of police interviews released Thursday by Justice Leslie Pringle of the Ontario Court of Justice as part of the Star’s ongoing attempt to bring scrutiny to the now three-year-old homicide investigation, which began as a murder-suicide probe.  (more...)

People had reason to ‘hurt’ Barry and Honey Sherman, son tells Toronto police in early days of the investigation




2 comments:

  1. Dear writer,
    Did you know Barry?

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    1. I knew Honey, who was enrolled in the same college as me. Barry was enrolled in the same engineering program as I was, but a few years younger than him, I never met him.

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