Mother evicted one day after teen son’s murder

After losing her son, Vanessa Cardinal is about to lose her home.

Cardinal said she awoke to find a 24-hour eviction notice stuck to her door Saturday, just one day after learning her son Ashton, 17, was killed in the parking lot outside her apartment.

“We’re just trying to make funeral arrangements, and while we’re doing that, we got slapped with an eviction notice on our door,” she said Tuesday, tears streaming down her face as her family members packed their belongings.

Cardinal said she’d just like time to bury her son before her family is forced out, saying the stress of packing her son’s belongings while worrying about where she and her four other children will go is almost too much to bear.

The eviction notice cites a “serious altercation involving your unit,” putting the tenants in “substantial breach” of two clauses in the Residential Tenancies Act relating to endangering persons or property in the premises.

Cardinal’s family was supposed to be out by noon on Monday. Cardinal said she received a second notice Tuesday afternoon.

A representative from Braden Equities Inc., which manages the property, couldn’t be reached.

Ashton Cardinal was found dead in the parking lot of Parkridge Estates at 2908 116A Ave. on Friday morning.

Witnesses heard a disturbance around 3 a.m. and saw men using fence boards to beat a victim.

Arnold Anton Stephens, 38, 30-year-old Victoria May Carifelle and Terence Christopher Lewis, also 30, have been charged with second-degree murder.