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(12,008 posts) Mon Feb 4, 2013, 11:21 PM Feb 2013

Three dead in Murphys double murder, suicide [View all]

Source: recordnet.com

MURPHYS - Calaveras County residents responded with shock and grief Sunday as they learned that a Little League coach, author and former airline pilot had shot his two teenage children to death and then turned the gun on himself at their home in one of the region's most exclusive neighborhoods.

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His children, Alex Marshall, 17, and Macaila Marshall, 14, were dead on a couch. All had been shot once in the head with a handgun.

The family dog, also shot to death, was found in a bedroom.

Read more: http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130204/A_NEWS/302040310

Well, there you go. Just a good guy with a gun, doing what good guys with guns sometimes do.

I guess she must have been a bad guy with a gun... or an innocent victim. Whatever.

You had enough of this shit yet?

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Three dead in Murphys double murder, suicide [View all] harmonicon Feb 2013 OP

It's ok though, he used a handgun. geomon666 Feb 2013 #1

May God help them all, and help us too in the process,,, benld74 Feb 2013 #2

I don't think god will help them BobbyBoring Feb 2013 #4

If he had used a knife...maybe the other one could have gotten away. Auntie Bush Feb 2013 #5

Oh, god. This is making me absolutely nauseous. smirkymonkey Feb 2013 #3

Quite honestly, no. Archae Feb 2013 #8

No. It's only going to get worse. With record gun purchases... Walk away Feb 2013 #9

This is a strange story....If you read the whole thing...Husband was an author about 9/11 & KoKo Feb 2013 #6

Hmmmmm..... dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #11

Oh lord... the MIHOPers will be all over that. Recursion Feb 2013 #12

yes we will and we also have a name for those who believe the 2pooped2pop Feb 2013 #27

I noticed that in the article, too. pacalo Feb 2013 #18

makes this story suspicious and mysterious olddad56 Feb 2013 #54

The Depravity American Gun Culture Is Without Bound cantbeserious Feb 2013 #7

I certianly haven't seen any boundry yet. defacto7 Feb 2013 #10

I don't think this is about guns. 2pooped2pop Feb 2013 #28

Another selfish coward in process of divorce,couldn't just off himself with his gun. Sunlei Feb 2013 #60

I don't think much has changed. The public and social media are really just publicizing the carnage libdem4life Feb 2013 #13

don't nobody give a shit about the kids dying every day here in chicago. mopinko Feb 2013 #17

Yes, I do. nt okaawhatever Feb 2013 #20

People would care if the media covered it lunatica Feb 2013 #25

several years ago the chicago tribune decided mopinko Feb 2013 #33

I do... ReRe Feb 2013 #26

I certainly do care. lonestarnot Feb 2013 #32

And these murders, too. earthside Feb 2013 #14

It's not the price we have to pay, but the price we choose to pay. harmonicon Feb 2013 #24

The most fanatic of gun advocates are saying ... earthside Feb 2013 #29

The killer is identified as an author and former airline pilot Orrex Feb 2013 #15

It's the same guy, according to boing boing, where I first came across the story. harmonicon Feb 2013 #23

Moar guns! nt onehandle Feb 2013 #16

Another crazy conspiracy theorist goes off the deep end... nt EastKYLiberal Feb 2013 #19

You say "crazy conspiracy theorist," I say "lawful gun owner." harmonicon Feb 2013 #22

???? crazy conspiracy theorist? 2pooped2pop Feb 2013 #30

I came home having enough of the shit madokie Feb 2013 #21

His daughter"s statement on her Face book posting is troubling: olegramps Feb 2013 #31

So the daughter was just like any typical American teenager? Blue_Tires Feb 2013 #34

I don't believe that is a typical response of a teenage daughters I have known. olegramps Feb 2013 #67

God only knows what she had to live with eissa Feb 2013 #35

that is troubling, plus the neighbor woman who said he 'visited' all the time. Sunlei Feb 2013 #61

More on Phillip Marshall mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2013 #36

A column about him from a local paper in September deutsey Feb 2013 #52

I live here where this occurred musiclawyer Feb 2013 #37

Does this man look like a "misfit" or a "misanthrope"? green for victory Feb 2013 #38

"Maybe he didn't shoot himself. Maybe he did." nobodyspecial Feb 2013 #41

So that somebody can label it "woo talk" and get him banned? ScreamingMeemie Feb 2013 #44

WTF! I am asking for clarification on a cryptic post. nobodyspecial Feb 2013 #55

I'm not one to alert. Just like I'm not one to play games. ScreamingMeemie Feb 2013 #56

Yeah, you caught me nobodyspecial Feb 2013 #57

Your words. Not mine. ScreamingMeemie Feb 2013 #58

Must be the new trend, to try to cast doubt on everyshooting now. Katashi_itto Feb 2013 #53

thoughts L22552 Feb 2013 #39

What's indisputable is that he was a cold blooded murderer MrScorpio Feb 2013 #40

How is it indisputable green for victory Feb 2013 #43

OK, I'll bite nobodyspecial Feb 2013 #42

Did not judge this family, but have had my own judged. If you are a family ScreamingMeemie Feb 2013 #45

Macaila Marshall bears an eerie resemblance to Rachel Scott who died during the Columbine Massacre. Selatius Feb 2013 #46

interesting words from Phillip Marshall green for victory Feb 2013 #47

I bet there's a lot of other things you may guarantee. harmonicon Feb 2013 #48

What if he didn't kill his kids? green for victory Feb 2013 #49

What if I have a unicorn in my pocket? harmonicon Feb 2013 #50

That's the thing jollyreaper2112 Feb 2013 #51

another murders-suicide (even the dog!), another family violence volcano? Sunlei Feb 2013 #59

yeah, there sure have been a lot of people who have spoken out about 911 that have commited suicide. olddad56 Feb 2013 #62

Have I got the website for you! harmonicon Feb 2013 #63

not his nutter 'the gov did 9-11' books. He's just another coward who wouldn't suicide alone. Sunlei Feb 2013 #66

I had enough of this shit a long time ago. Brigid Feb 2013 #64

Yet another "law-abiding gun owner" in action - right up until the second he wasn't. apocalypsehow Feb 2013 #65

thoughts L22552 Feb 2013 #68

You posted this telepathically, or from a computer? Pot, meet kettle. harmonicon Feb 2013 #69

harmonicom L22552 Feb 2013 #70

yet *another* case of anti depressant violence green for victory Apr 2013 #71