The man believed to have fatally shot the mother of his child before abducting their daughter was already facing trial for an earlier intimate partner violence case involving the same woman, the Star has learned.

Anthony Deschepper, who was killed in a shooting Wednesday with police after an hours-long manhunt, had been awaiting trial in connection with a 2023 incident where he was accused of firing a handgun near Savannah Kulla.

Multiple sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly, identified Kulla as the woman shot in a Brampton plaza parking lot on Tuesday. The mother of four died at the scene.

Kulla had spoken glowingly on social media about her parenting journey, saying in one post “I was meant to be a mom and my babies are my everything.”

Deschepper had been released on ba

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