Police came upon their worst nightmare Tuesday morning in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington. Authorities are investigating the case as a murder-suicide, which left an 8-year-old girl and two sets of twins — 5-year-old girls and 2-year-old boys all dead.
“There is no reason to believe this is anything other than a murder-suicide,” Lt. John Romero announced. “There is no current threat to the community, no active search for a suspect.”
The children’s father is believed to have killed the children and their mother before calling 9-1-1 and contacting a local television station, KABC, by fax. He told dispatchers he found his family dead but told the station he had killed them, said Deputy Police Chief Kenneth Garner. In the faxed note to KABC, the man said he was despondent over an employment situation, police said.
The fax is signed Ervin Anthony Lapoe, police confirmed. But the coroner’s office has not yet identified the male body found in the home.
A note was also found in the home, Garner said. He would not divulge details but said it could be described as a suicide note.
Photo courtesy of KTLA
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