Portland murder-suicide kills man, woman and young boy

[depakid]

Portland police made a grisly discovery Thursday morning when they found the bodies of a woman and a 4-year-old boy in a Southeast Portland home who were the apparent victims of a murder-suicide. Police found the bodies at about 10 a.m. at a house in the 1000 block of Southeast 123rd Avenue. Inside they discovered the bodies of a 29-year-old man, a 28-year-old woman and the young boy.

A handgun was found near the bodies. Names of the three people have not yet been released. Autopsies were scheduled on the bodies Thursday. Police believe the man shot the woman and the boy and then turned the gun on himself. The two adults were the boy’s parents.

Officers were at the house twice Wednesday night and took a missing person report from a relative of the dead woman. Officers did not have adequate information at that time to force their way into the home.

More: http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125749107471625700

[Tunkamerica]

1. i will never understand

no matter how bad you think things are how you can take your own child's life.

[Euromutt]

2. And your point is?

The Japanese language has specific terms to distinguish different types of domestic murder-suicide. Ikka-shinju is when an entire family decides to commit suicide, and the parents kill the children (with the children's consent) and then kill themselves. By contrast, muri-shinju occurs when one or both parents kill the children against their will, and then commit suicide. There are typically one or two incidents of muri-shinju reported every day in Japan (source: http://www.glocom.org/special_topics/social_trends/20040107_trends_s65/index.html). And that's despite Japan having possibly the most restrictive firearms law in the world.

My point in mentioning this is that murder-suicides like this don't require firearms to commit, which means that preventing this sort of tragic occurrence from happening means trying to identify why a person would do this sort of thing and trying to eliminate those circumstances, rather than getting fixated on the how.

[slackmaster]

3. Another lame drive-by "current events" post that doesn't fit the purpose of the Guns forum.

It's tragic that those people are dead.

[proteus_lives]

4. Wow, everyone should lose their rights!

It makes perfect sense. Let's punish the many for the crimes of the few! It's such a liberal and progressive idea!




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