The man accused of stabbing and killing a woman in front of her children in an Ottawa park Thursday morning is charged with first-degree murder, according to city police, who have called it femicide.

In a news release, Ottawa police said Brkti Berhe, 36, of Ottawa was attacked around 11:30 a.m. near the intersection of Uplands and Paul Anka drivessouth of the center and close to the city’s international airport.

She died at Paul Landry Park, sources told CBC. Paramedics told CBC the woman’s children were not injured.

Police said the suspect fled in a vehicle and was arrested near exit 66 of Highway 417 in Casselman, Ontario, about 50 kilometers east of the park.

On Friday, Ottawa police said Fsha Tekhle, 36, of Montreal, faces a charge of first-degree murder in Berhe’s death.

Police said the accused “had a domestic relationship with a member of the victim’s family” and that the murder was a femicidethat is, when a woman or girl is killed because of her gender.