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Divorce near, husband kills teacher, self in Woburn
WOBURN -- It was thought to be an amicable split, so much so that Sylvie Desilets agreed to help her husband pack his belongings days after their preliminary divorce decree was issued. But when she went to their apartment in Woburn on Monday night, police say, Desilets walked into a long-planned attack.
Law enforcement officials say Ajit Chordia, 33, shot his wife and turned the gun on himself, leaving behind a gruesome scene.
Chordia was apparently upset about Desilets's new relationship with someone she had met, sai
d Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley.
Police say that Chordia meticulously plotted her death and his own. He had arranged t
o have power of attorney over his affairs transferred and had sent money to his mother. A neighbor said he saw Chordia waiting in the parking lot of his apartment complex at about 4 p.m., looking toward the entrance. Police say Desilets arrived shortly afterward.
Desilets, a 31-year-old French and Spanish teacher at Daniel L. Joyce Middle School, had planned to return to Canada at the end of the school year. Her death marked the second slaying of a teacher in a week, following the killing of a Newburyport teacher in New Hampshire, allegedly by her son.
At the Woburn school yesterday, students remembered Desilets as a cheery teacher who brought fried dough to school and taught them the name Canadians use for the treat, ''beaver tail."
''Sylvie was the kind of teacher every parent would love to have," said Carl Batchelder, su
peri
ntendent of Woburn public schools. ''This was someone who had high expectations for her students . . . someone who is definitely going to be missed. It's just a tr
agic loss."
The couple had resided in a three-story apartment complex in a residential section of Woburn. Desilets and Chordia were both immigrants. He was a native of Pune, India; she was born in Lachute, Canada. They were married at Lawrence City Hall on May 17, 2001, according to records at Middlesex Probate and Family Court in Cambridge. It was her first marriage and his second.
The Desilets family, led by her father, came to Woburn yesterday, where they were assisted by Julie M. Christopher, a Spanish teacher at Joyce with whom Sylvie was sharing an apartment in Stoneham.
Christopher said that she saw Desilets on Monday morning and that she told her she would be at her apartment helping Chordia pack.
''They seemed to have a very cordial relationship," Christopher said. ''
No one e
xpected this."
Christopher said Desilets was the oldest of three girls and had a large extended family in the Montreal area.
''Her life here was very limited," Christopher said. ''There was school
and home, and then every weekend she would visit her family [in Canada]. That was it." Continued...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachus...murder_suicide/
Divorce near, husband kills teacher, self in Woburn
WOBURN -- It was thought to be an amicable split, so much so that Sylvie Desilets agreed to help her husband pack his belongings days after their preliminary divorce decree was issued. But when she went to their apartment in Woburn on Monday night, police say, Desilets walked into a long-planned attack.
Law enforcement officials say Ajit Chordia, 33, shot his wife and turned the gun on himself, leaving behind a gruesome scene.
Chordia was apparently upset about Desilets's new relationship with someone she had met, sai
d Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley.
Police say that Chordia meticulously plotted her death and his own. He had arranged t
o have power of attorney over his affairs transferred and had sent money to his mother. A neighbor said he saw Chordia waiting in the parking lot of his apartment complex at about 4 p.m., looking toward the entrance. Police say Desilets arrived shortly afterward.
Desilets, a 31-year-old French and Spanish teacher at Daniel L. Joyce Middle School, had planned to return to Canada at the end of the school year. Her death marked the second slaying of a teacher in a week, following the killing of a Newburyport teacher in New Hampshire, allegedly by her son.
At the Woburn school yesterday, students remembered Desilets as a cheery teacher who brought fried dough to school and taught them the name Canadians use for the treat, ''beaver tail."
''Sylvie was the kind of teacher every parent would love to have," said Carl Batchelder, su
peri
ntendent of Woburn public schools. ''This was someone who had high expectations for her students . . . someone who is definitely going to be missed. It's just a tr
agic loss."
The couple had resided in a three-story apartment complex in a residential section of Woburn. Desilets and Chordia were both immigrants. He was a native of Pune, India; she was born in Lachute, Canada. They were married at Lawrence City Hall on May 17, 2001, according to records at Middlesex Probate and Family Court in Cambridge. It was her first marriage and his second.
The Desilets family, led by her father, came to Woburn yesterday, where they were assisted by Julie M. Christopher, a Spanish teacher at Joyce with whom Sylvie was sharing an apartment in Stoneham.
Christopher said that she saw Desilets on Monday morning and that she told her she would be at her apartment helping Chordia pack.
''They seemed to have a very cordial relationship," Christopher said. ''
No one e
xpected this."
Christopher said Desilets was the oldest of three girls and had a large extended family in the Montreal area.
''Her life here was very limited," Christopher said. ''There was school
and home, and then every weekend she would visit her family [in Canada]. That was it." Continued...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachus...murder_suicide/