In San Diego, California, five members of a family have been shot dead, including three children. The investigators assume that the 31-year-old father fired the shots and then took his own life. It seems to be a "case of domestic violence with murder and suicide," said policeman Matt Dobbs on Saturday afternoon (local time).
The police had been called by emergency call to the scene in the early morning. There, the officials found the bloodied body of a three-year-old boy. The 29-year-old mother and father were also dead. Three other children were taken to hospital with severe injuries, where a five-year-old and a nine-year-old died. Her eleven-year-old brother is in a "very critical" condition, said Dobbs.
According to the police, the parents were in separation. The wife had obtained the day before the bloody act with the authorities, a contact ban against the suspect. The police assume that the man entered the house in the early morning and killed his family after a quarrel, before he aimed the weapon against himself.
Police chief David Nisleit described the case as part of a devastating, larger problem, according to the Washington Post. "We know there are victims of domestic violence every day in this district and in this city."
