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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 06:29 PM
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Apparent murder-suicide victims owned East Bay skin care practice
The Berkeley family of four found dead in a parking lot at Tilden Park in the East Bay hills have been identified as Kevin Morrissey, 51; his wife, Dr. Mamiko Kawai, 40; and their children, Nikki Morrissey, 8, and Kim "Elena" Morrissey, 6.

Police say that Morrissey, despairing of money problems related to the couple's Albany skin-care company, apparently shot his two young daughters and wife to death before turning the gun on himself Monday evening.

Officers responding to reports of fireworks or gunshots found all four people dead in the Mineral Springs parking lot off Wildcat Canyon Road, near Inspiration Point, just after 7 p.m.

The girls were in the back seat of a car, each shot in the head, said Chief Timothy Anderson of the East Bay Regional Park Police. Morrissey and his wife were on the ground outside the car, along with a .357 Magnum revolver for which he had registered in mid-April, Anderson said.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/19/BAGSQQHPD713.DTL



Damn it!! Why do adults have to kill their children because they're failing. That story in Chicago from last week, I guess the mother did that one (never any follow-up on that story!)and now this. Then, there's that mother who hung her children a few weeks back. What the hell is wrong with adults!!
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 06:36 PM
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1. That's extremely tragic, to say the least.
I'm not sure if they have solved the case outside Chicago. That family had moved from the Seattle area, so it's been on the news here a lot. Last I heard they haven't released any more info on that one. Terrible. :(
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 06:38 PM
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2. This society leaves them with no hope.
They see no hope for themselves, and less than none for the future of their children.

In America, children are your punishment for having sex.
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 06:41 PM
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3. I don't know if I am more aware of these things
happening or if they are indeed happening more often. Doesn't it seem like there have been a rash of these "murder-suicides" recently? There was the couple and their kids who lived outside Chicago and the woman in Texas who killed her kids and then herself.

Sad. If this is what a pro family administration brings us..I'd hate to see the flip side. :sarcasm:
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