Police: 5 Children, Father Die in Murder-Suicide

[tekisui]

Source: AP

GRAHAM, Wash. – A father apparently shot to death five of his children, ages 7 to 16, at their mobile home and then killed himself at a casino miles away, police said Saturday.

Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff, called it a domestic violence situation and a murder-suicide.

"We believe they all died of gunshot wounds," Troyer said.

Auburn police found the father, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his car near the Muckleshoot Casino in Auburn, about 30 miles south of Seattle. Pierce County deputies checked the mobile home, which is about 20 miles southeast of the casino, and found four of the children dead in their beds and the fifth in the bathroom.

The mother of the victims was not at home, Troyer said.

He said investigators believe the husband and wife were not estranged.

"Clearly she's been very traumatized," Troyer told The News Tribune of Tacoma. "You kind of get hardened to seeing people who are killed because of their own bad actions. But these kids died through no fault of their own. This is something you never want to see."

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[proud2BlibKansan]

1. ANOTHER shooting???

This has been a bad weekend.

[tekisui]

2. Very bad.

:-(

[bluedeminredstate]

3. I cannot imagine.

That poor woman. Those poor children. How terrible for this family.

[customerserviceguy]

4. I have a feeling

that the economic circumstances we find ourselves in are going to cause this scene to be repeated far too many times... :(

[lpbk2713]

5. Meanwhile ....

... when last seen, Bush and Cheney were last seen counting their money.