Wilmington, Calif. – A man apparently upset about his job situation killed his wife and five children before committing suicide at their home, police said.
Responding to a report of a shooting, cops made the girsly discovery of the bodies of a man, a woman, an 8-year-old girl, two 5-year-old twin girls and a set of twin 2-year-old boys, according to LAPD Deputy Chief Kenneth Garner.
“He was despondent, clearly, over his job situation,” Garner said of the father.
The gruesome find was made shortly after 8 a.m. in the 1000 block of MacFarland Avenue, said Officer Sam Park of the LAPD’s Media Relations unit. Wilmington, about 18 miles south of downtown, is a 10-square-mile community adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles.
Police said the bodies were scattered throughout the McFarland Avenue house.
Either before or after killing his family, the man sent a two-page typewritten letter to KABC-TV, Garner said. The Burbank-based television station called police in that suburb, Garner said.
“Obviously he wanted somebody to find the bodies,” Garner said.
Garner said he didn’t exactly know the man’s job situation, but “it wasn’t going well at work.”
“In the note, he clearly said he was going to kill himself, his wife and his kids,” Garner said.
Radio station KFWB’s Pete Demetriou reported the man worked at a Kaiser hospital in Los Angeles.
Authorities withheld the names of the dead, pending family notification.
(Source: NBC Los Angeles)
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This tragedy on the same day that another man ‘s wife gave birth to 8 babies. Sad enough if a person has problems he cannot deal with and commits suicide,but WHY kill the innocent sweet little children?
what a story now we know why we need betochon when we believe that everything comes from Hashem we have to pray and put our trust in Him!!!! This is so sad to kill a whole family!!
to #1
with a father who is capable of murder, who said the children will be innocent? (if it happened to Hitler ysv”z as a baby someone probably would have said that also)
on 2nd thought what about Yishmael(asher hu sham)
The problem is that such kind of stories have become acceptable. A man has a problem & he murders others. When hearing about such a story the response shouldn’t be “oh how sad”. Rather one should cry out “Rasha Merusha,murderer”! “How disgusting & despicable to take innocent lives”. Thats a more appropiate response.