A family of three adults and two children were found dead in their home at Orlando, Florida on Tuesday in what police say is an apparent murder-suicide. Orlando police said the husband/father is suspected of being the perpetrator who killed his wife and other family members. The harrowing scene was discovered when officers visited the […]
Early Sunday morning, four family members were found dead in a home in Roscommon County, Michigan, in what was an apparent murder-suicide, according to police and court documents. The Roscommon County Sheriff’s Department identified the deceased as Tirany Lee Savage, 35, her son Dayton Cowdrey, 13, her mother Kim Lynnette Ebright, 58, and Tirany’s husband, Bo […]
A mother and her three children whose bodies were found in a Minnesota lake over the weekend died in a murder-suicide, sheriff’s investigators said Thursday—and their deaths apparently followed the suicide of the children’s father. Police and fire personnel in the St. Paul suburb of Maplewood were dispatched last Friday after a woman, identified as […]
RIVERVIEW, Fla.—A 64-year-old Florida man who said caring for his terminally ill wife and stepdaughter had become overwhelmed and fatally shot the women and then called 911 before killing himself, authorities said. Thomas Schultz told the dispatcher on Wednesday morning that the family was “in an impossible situation with no way out,” Hillsborough County Sheriff […]
CONKLIN, N.Y.—In the waning days of Payton Gendron’s COVID-19-altered senior year at Susquehanna Valley High School, he logged on to a virtual learning program in economics class that asked: “What do you plan to do when you retire?” “Murder-suicide,” Gendron typed. Despite his protests that it was all a joke, the bespectacled 17-year-old who had […]
HOUSTON—Two men died and a woman was wounded in what Houston police said was a murder-suicide at a downtown seafood restaurant. The shooting happened shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday as a man and woman were finishing dinner in the bar of the Aquarium Restaurant, Houston police Executive Assistant Chief Matt Slinkard said. Witnesses said, and […]
SAND SPRINGS, Okla.—A couple and their two young children were found dead in a home Saturday in northeast Oklahoma in what police said appears to be a triple murder-suicide, the Tulsa World reported. Police Capt. Todd Enzbrenner said the mother of an adult male victim arrived at the home in a mobile home park about […]
Authorities released additional details regarding a family of five members who were found deceased earlier this week inside a home in Ohio in an apparent murder-suicide. The victims were identified as John Nelson, 44, his wife Robin, 35, and their three children, Gavin, 12, Brianna, 10, and Liam, six, according to a police statement. The family dog […]
Five family members were found dead inside a home in Ohio in what appears to be a murder-suicide, authorities said. Deputies with the Elyria Police Department were performing a well-being check on the residents of the home on Willow Park Road Wednesday morning when they discovered the five bodies, the department said in a press release. Detectives […]
Four people were found dead in Montana in what appears to be a triple murder-suicide, Flathead County Sheriff Brian Heino said Tuesday. Heino identified three of the victims as Emily Lynn Barge, 42; her 3-year-old daughter Piper Jocelyn Barge; and Cody Brian Nevins, 41, who is believed to be Emily’s boyfriend. The three victims are believed […]
Authorities in Pennsylvania released the identities of the three bodies that were found dead on Thursday evening. The York County Coroner’s Office said in an updated release (pdf) that 28-year-old David Jonathan Schlenoff shot and killed his mother and father before turning the gun on himself in a double murder-suicide. The coroner’s office identified Schlenoff’s […]
A woman fired shots at a cigar lounge in Lisle Friday evening, which killed a retired Illinois State Police officer, injured another along with an off-duty trooper, before fatally shooting herself, officials said. The motive is unknown.
CHICAGO—Two toddlers died early Thursday in Chicago after a woman believed to be their mother stabbed a 70-year-old man, left one of the children in a bathtub and threw the other child out an 11th-floor apartment before jumping herself, police said. Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said investigators were trying to determine exactly what happened […]
A 40-year-old mother and two young children found on a sidewalk in Boston on Christmas Day “very likely” died in a double murder-suicide, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said Thursday. The three were found unconscious outside the Renaissance Park Garage near Northeastern University just before 1:30 p.m. Wednesday and pronounced dead at a hospital. […]
The Westchester father who stabbed his wife and two children to death before killing himself in a horrific murder-suicide this week was “under a tremendous amount of stress,” police said Friday.
Chuan-Kai Liu, 46, who went by the name Tom, used a knife to kill his wife Dorothy Liu, 42, and their children, Tennyson, 7, and Adeline, 4, inside their colonial-style home on Romer Avenue in the tight-knit community of Pleasantville, cops said. The father then fatally turned the knife on himself.
