man kills family then himself over financial problems

[brtnboarder3241 5,000+ posts]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/ap_on_re_us/bodies_found

so fucking sad

LOS ANGELES - An unemployed man with an advanced finance degree who was despondent over his own financial problems shot and killed his wife, three children, mother-in-law and then himself in an upscale home in a gated community, police said Monday.

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Officers found the bodies Monday morning after the wife failed to show up at a neighbor's home to go to work, Deputy Chief Michel Moore said. The deaths occurred sometime after Saturday evening.

A handgun that had been bought Sept. 16 was found near the father's body, Moore said. The father left two ******* notes — one for police and one for friends and relatives — and a will.

The notes attest to the man's financial difficulties, and he takes responsibility for killing his family members, Moore said.

The family members' names were not immediately released because police wanted to make sure the children's schools had time to make grief counselors available. The children were sons ages 19, 12 and 7.

The man had a master's of business administration in finance, formerly worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sony Pictures, but had been unemployed for several months, Moore said.

Moore did not specify what financial trouble the man had been in. He noted that the family did not own the home.

PricewaterhouseCoopers spokesman Steven Silber had no immediate comment. Sony Pictures Entertainment spokesman Steve Elzer did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

The gated community, called Sorrento Pointe, is among several developments along curving lanes and cul-de-sacs set on the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains in Porter Ranch, about 23 miles northwest of downtown.

Ryan Ransdell, who lives across the street, said the house had been occupied by the family for about a year.

"They didn't socialize too much," he said. "They kept pretty much to themselves."

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[WildBeast15 10+ year member]

wow what a shame........ poor kids they had so long to live....

 

[Trey803 5,000+ posts]

we will be seeing a lot more of this same story in the next few years

 

[brtnboarder3241 5,000+ posts]

Wachovia apparently forgave a 90 yo lady that killed herself over debt owed to them.

 

[fbi90909 5,000+ posts]

****.

 

[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

Wachovia apparently forgave a 90 yo lady that killed herself over debt owed to them.

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif She didn't die.

 

[brtnboarder3241 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif She didn't die.

good find.. my bad

 

[wojo 10+ year member]

wow. thats horrible. i cant ever imagine doing something like that or even being killed. im 19 and i could never imagine something like this happening.

 

[WildBeast15 10+ year member]

i lost 5 grand over 2 months to washington mutal and the day before it crashed my mom took out everything....( the stocks were in my dads will when he passed in 97) we got so lucky... we would have lost close to 50 grand...

 

[edzy 10+ year member]

same thing happened in Boston last week, Guy shot his wife them himself....Debt problems. Again in an upscale downdown apartment.

 

[brtnboarder3241 5,000+ posts]

wow..very stupid

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

That is horrible!

Want be the last either. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[John3000 10+ year member]

I just dont see how you could kill your children or a child period, weak minded and selfish cowards IMHO. The economy is going to sh1t and I can understand getting worried about the hard times ahead, but ****!

 

[Banana Balls 5,000+ posts]

I just dont see how you could kill your children or a child period, weak minded and selfish cowards IMHO.

No way, that part was probably the easiest. You can always make more children. I was shocked that he killed himself until I noticed he was in finance. I see Flip potentially doing this someday.

 

[mcsoul 10+ year member]

Wow, another highly educated selfish prick with no self control. The kind

that like to tell the world how to live, but cannot handle 1 second of adversity

or down sizing his lifstyle.