Harry Trineer says he feels no anger towards the man who has been accused of killing his son. “I’m discouraged in people,” says the 65-year-old long-time Kilmar resident. “It is such a useless waste of life.” “When I was young, if you got into a fight, it was hand to hand. It was settled with your fists, and it was finished. But today, you never know if the other guy has a knife or a gun. It’s not normal anymore. We are getting to be like those countries where they have internal strife, where suicide bombers kill their own people to make a point,” says Harry Trineer. Rodny Wiss César, 26, of Hawkesbury, has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Danny Trineer, 32, at the Déjà Vue Café bar in Hawkesbury September 4. He was coming to the aid of a friend who had become involved in an altercation with another woman. “He was always ready to help people,” says his father. Danny Trineer was not a violent man, family members say. “He was a peacemaker,” recalls Estelle Ste-Croix, an aunt who helped raise Danny and his sister, Jennifer. “He was not a fighter,” adds Yves Villeneuve, spouse of Danny’s mother, Line St-Jean, of Lachute. Trineer had at one time worked at Déjà Vue as a doorman. “They liked him there. He was polite. He would always try to talk people out of problems,” says Trineer. The Trineers stress that Danny would not approve of the racist slur that had been used during a demonstration September 5 at the L’Orignal courthouse where a group of people demanded tha...