Ernest Barthe, the paternal grandfather of the two brother who were strangled to death in their sleep by a 16-feet python, told MailOnline that the boys will be buried in the same casket. Heartbreakingly, he said: 'So now they'll be together forever. You never saw one without the other.'
The 100lb reptile crawled through a gap in its glass enclosure and up into a vent shaft before falling through the ceiling on top of the brothers. An autopsy this afternoon confirmed that the boys had died of asphyxiation.
Today, Bry Loyst, curator of the Indian River Reptile Zoo, Ottawa, who has been briefed by the police, told MailOnline: 'I was told that it got halfway or part of the way through the ventilation and was pulled back in its cage but that it was not repaired.'
He added: 'Shortly afterwards, it did it again when children were asleep in the vicinity.
Llittle Connor and Noah Barth were sleeping soundly when the 100-pound African Rock Python fell from the ceiling and attacked them.
The boys were spending the night with Jean-Claude Savoie, who lives above the Reptile Ocean pet store that he owns in the tiny New Brunswick city of Campbellton. Reptile Ocean is home to a veritable menagerie of exotic animals, including crocodiles, tarantulas, tortoises and at numerous snakes.
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| Tragic: Connor and Noah Barth are seen here with a third child as they mop out a massive glass enclosure that held some of Jean-Claude Savoie's large reptiles |
Mr Savoie described to Global News how he walked into the living room and found the two boys dead about 6.30am on Monday. He found the snake coiled in a hole nearby.
He said the creeping serpent slithered upstairs into his apartment through the ventilation ducts and creeped into the ceiling.
Curious: Noah and Connor, seen here handling a corn snake called Mr Slithers, were fascinated by animals, a neighbor tells MailOnline
Big snake: This anaconda is believed to be one of the very large snakes Jean-Claude Savoie kept at his Reptile Ocean pet shop
It then fell through the ceiling and dropped onto the small boys from above. Mr Savoie said he believes the snake coiled around both children and crushed them as they slept together on the floor.
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| Close: An autopsy is being carried out on the bodies of Connor and Noah to determine the exact cause of death |
The National Post reports that the snake was a 14 to 16-foot African rock python that even its owner said was 'vicious' and was rarely handled.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people living in the small Canadian community where the two young brothers lived held a candlelight vigil in their honor on Wednesday night.
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| Mourning: Children light candles and float them across the surface of a pond in Campbellton, New Brunswick, at a vigil for Noah and Connor Barthe |
Deputy mayor Ian Comeau said the community had come together to 'honor two angels.' He said he hoped the vigil would prove some catharsis for the grief-stricken community.
The children's father Andrew Barthe was at the cermoney but left without speaking to anyone.
Culled from DAILY MAIL
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