A man believed to be a Port Authority Police Department officer allegedly shot his sister dead and wounded his senior mother, then turned the gun on himself, in a horrific Bronx murder-suicide attempt on Thursday morning. Police sources said the carnage unfolded inside a ground-floor apartment at 2500 Johnson Ave. in Spuyten Duyvil just before 8 a.m. on Jan. 22.
The cause of death has been revealed for Thomas Ocheltree and daughters Alexandra Ocheltree, 12, and Mackenzie Ocheltree, 9, who were all apparently killed in a murder-suicide last month in SF's Westwood neighborhood. All three were shot and found in their beds, and mother Paula Truong was found hanged in the garage, and her death was ruled a suicide. No further details about the case have been made public. [Chronicle]
Officials identified the two victims of an apparent murder-suicide in Beverly Monday night as a 58-year-old woman and a 56-year-old man. Becky Lynn Center and John Patrick Nesbitt were both found dead at a home on Colonial Drive on Monday, the Essex County District Attorney's Office said Wednesday night. Police responded to the home around 9:40 p.m. Monday night, the DA and Beverly police previously announced. Nesbitt and Center were pronounced dead at the scene with apparent gunshot wounds.
The tragic story of an apparent murder-suicide in San Francisco's Westwood Park neighborhood earlier this week gained some details on Thursday, and we now know that the perpetrator of the murders appears to have been the mother. A string of failed businesses, a home that was forced into a foreclosure sale, and mounting debt appear to have been factors leading 53-year-old Paula Truong to end the lives of her children and husband, before taking her own life.
Detectives in Queens are investigating a possible murder-suicide late on Friday night that left two men dead, sources familiar with the case said. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Detectives in Queens are investigating a possible murder-suicide late on Friday night that left two men dead, sources familiar with the case said. Police reported that the bloodshed occurred just after 11:45 p.m. on Oct. 3 inside the first floor of a home on the 15500 block of 116th Road in South Jamaica.
Last week, a 23-year-old man who, according to police, was obsessed with previous mass shooters, opened fire at a school in Minneapolis, killing two children and injuring 18 others. It was the latest mass shooting to make headlines, and it ended the way most of them do, with the gunman killing himself. In highly publicized cases, the horror looms large in the public consciousness.
Deputies found 29-year-old Ana Beatriz Santo Rodriguez outside a home near the 1000 block of Northwest 127th Path in the Tamiami area Friday, according to police detective Joseph Peguero Rivera. She was already dead.
The investigation conducted in the aftermath of the fire revealed the presence of an accelerant and that the home's gas line had been tampered with, enabling unrestricted flow of natural gas into the home's interior.
"I found our two grandsons, Hudson 18, and Asher 16, and our daughter Bailey, and our son-in-law Jeremy, dead laying in their beds...What I saw will haunt me the rest of my life."
