murder-suicide
Buffalo man kills girlfriend, holds children hostage before turning gun on self
Buffalo, NY – A 29-year-old man apparently shot his 21-year-old girlfriend to death late Tuesday night and then held police at bay for four hours with three young children in the house, before he shot and critically wounded himself, Buffalo police say. The standoff, which occurred in the 300 block of Millicent Avenue, began just [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Father, Son Found dead in apparent murder-suicide
GARLAND, Texas ― Neither a Sachse family nor Garland police know what motivated a father to shoot his 10-year-old son and then commit suicide. Their bodies were found Friday morning near Firewheel Golf Park in Garland. Police say they may never know why 37-year-old Matthew Knapp, an outwardly stable family man with no known legal [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Couple, toddler son found shot to death in apparent murder-suicide
ORANGE, Calif. — A couple and their toddler son have been found shot to death in their Orange County apartment in an apparent murder-suicide, police said Wednesday. An apartment manager who hadn’t seen the family in several days called police, who arrived Tuesday afternoon to find a 44-year-old man, his 42-year-old girlfriend and their 2- [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )man who killed his estranged wife was shot by police
O’FALLON, IL — Police were called to what they thought was an apartment burglary Monday night but once inside, they were confronted by a man who refused to put down his rifle and by the body of his estranged wife. An officer shot three times at James Jenkins, 44, of East St. Louis, hitting him [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Man kills ex-girlfriend and self in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, PA - Philadelphia court clerk taking her 11-year-old daughter to school was slain this morning when her ex-boyfriend opened fire on her car in West Oak Lane before killing himself with a bullet to the head, police said. The victim’s daughter was not physically harmed but her screams echoed through the neighborhood of neat [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Man killed girlfriend over breakup, then committed suicde
Maple Grove, Minn – In a bloody end to a domestic dispute, a young woman’s on-again, off-again boyfriend shot her to death Sunday afternoon outside a Maple Grove McDonald’s restaurant, then committed suicide on a nearby freeway, police said. Just before 2 p.m., Maple Grove police received several frantic 911 calls about a woman being [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Man Shot Wife and 3 kids in their Maryland Home
MIDDLETOWN, Md. – A father killed his wife and their three children before fatally shooting himself in a northwest Maryland home, leaving a gruesome scene that was discovered Saturday by the youngsters’ grandfather, authorities said. When investigators arrived, the couple’s two sons, ages 5 and 4, lay dead in their beds, while the bodies of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Man, woman dead in murder-suicide in Colorado Springs
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Police say the weekend shooting deaths of a man and woman in a central Colorado Springs home were the result of an apparent attempted murder-suicide. Colorado Springs police Sgt. Steve Noblitt on Monday said the two had been identified as 38-year-old Fidencio Ordaz Gonzalez and 36-year-old Paula Ordaz, both of Colorado [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Man, woman found shot to death in Frisco home
Dallas, Texas – A man and a woman were found fatally shot inside a Frisco home late Saturday, hours after a police tactical team responded to a report that a man with a gun was inside the home. Their names were not released, pending notification of relatives. The relationship of the man and the woman [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )2 Dead In College Murder-Suicide
DEARBORN, Mich. – Two people were killed at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn Friday afternoon in what police are calling a murder-suicide. Deputy Police Chief Gregg Brighton said Henry Ford Community College was locked down in the early afternoon, but the campus has since been secured and the lockdown was lifted. Police said they [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Divorced pair dead in murder-suicide
Tucson, Arizona – A divorced couple who still lived together ended up dying together Thursday night in an apparent homicide-suicide, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman said. Ana Delia Rios, 44, and her ex-husband, Martin Rios Gonzales, 44, were found shot to death in their Southwest Side home about 10:30 p.m., Deputy Dawn Barkman said. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Couple found dead in their mobile home from murder-suicide
Roanoke, Indiana – The couple found dead in their Roanoke mobile home Thursday died in a homicide-suicide, presumably from a domestic dispute that turned violent, according to the Huntington County coroner. Investigators concluded that 26-year-old Jeremy Stroh shot his girlfriend, 25-year-old Nicole Scheiber, multiple times inside their home at Castle Hill Mobile Home Park in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Alabama man kills wife, 3 others and self
Green Hill, Alabama – A man facing a divorce trial shot and killed his estranged wife, their teenage daughter and two other relatives in rural north Alabama before returning to his home in a nearby town and killing himself, authorities said Tuesday. Kevin Garner’s body was found Tuesday afternoon near his Priceville home, which burned [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mother shot son, then turned the gun on herself
Casselberry, Florida - Marie Moore, a 44-year-old woman from Florida, has fatally shot and killed her 20-year-old son before killing herself at a shooting range.Marie Moore and her son Mitchell Moore were at central Florida gun range ‘Shoot Straight’ Sunday sharing a firing when Marie killed her and then herself. According to Casselberry police, a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )3 found shot dead inside West Kendall home
Jose and Nolvia Salazar lived quiet lives in their shady West Kendall neighborhood. The silence was shattered early Sunday when the couple and Nolvia Salazar’s daughter, Karla Valle, 27, were found shot dead in a scene that Miami-Dade police called “domestic in nature.” Police would not call the deaths a case of murder-suicide, but said [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )5 children, father die in murder-suicide
GRAHAM, Wash. – A father apparently shot to death five of his children, ages 7 to 16, at their mobile home and then killed himself near a casino miles away, police said Saturday. Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff, called it a domestic violence situation and a murder-suicide. “We believe they all [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Man shot his wife and himself in their home
Miami Lakes, Florida – The Miami Lakes Chamber of Commerce is mourning the violent and disturbing death of its president, David Waud. According to media reports, police said Waud shot his wife, Carol Waud, and himself on Saturday in their Hialeah home. Waud was also identified as president of local company Profit Inc. The chamber [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Family of 6 died from Murder-suicide
Santa Clara, California – Police found was one of the worst shooting scenes in Santa Clara history: six bodies were scattered around the three-story townhome, four were dead, including a42-year-old man whom police suspect was the shooter. Two handguns were found nearby. Paramedics performed CPR on a 4-year-old girl, but she too died at the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )3 dead in suspected murder-suicide in Firestone
Firestone, Colorado – A suspected murder-suicide left three people dead early Saturday morning in a Firestone subdivision. The incident, which led to a three-and-a-half hour standoff and prompted the partial evacuation of the Eagle Crest subdivision in Firestone, ended after members of the Weld County Regional SWAT team entered the residence at about 9:15 a.m. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Man killed elderly wife, overwhelmed by caretaking
ROCK HILL, S.C. – On Nov. 19, 2008, Hartner held a .25-caliber pistol behind 90-year-old Mildred Hartner’s head and shot her while she slept. He then turned around and tried to shoot their 10-year-old dog, but the gun jammed. He went and grabbed a .9-millimeter pistol and killed the dog, but admitted he was too [...]
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