Six members of family dead in murder-suicide

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Source: SFGate

(03-30) 07:10 PDT SANTA CLARA -- Six people, including three children, were shot and killed and a seventh victim is fighting for her life in what Santa Clara police are investigating as a murder-suicide, one of the deadliest such incidents in the Bay Area in recent memory.

The suspected gunman, a man, is believed to be among the dead inside a home on Headen Way in the city's upscale Rivermark community north of the Montague Expressway, said Santa Clara police Lt. Phil Cooke.

"We do believe this appears to be a family-on-family murder-suicide," Cooke said.

The identities of the victims weren't immediately released.

Police were called to the home at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday by a neighbor reporting that a woman was injured outside the home, Cooke said. Officers arrived and found five people dead inside the home, Cooke said. All had been shot.

Two of the dead were men, one of whom was believed to be the gunman, Cooke said. The other slain victims were children, including a boy, a girl and a young teenage girl or young adult woman, police said.

The woman found outside the home had also been shot, Cooke said. She was taken to a local hospital, where she was reported to be in critical condition.

An infant girl found injured at the home died early today, Cooke said.

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1. OMG - I Know Exactly Where That is

I worked just down the street for a while when I first lived in the Bay Area.

Sobs...what the hell is the matter with people?

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3. Murder-suicide.. America's favorite gun crime..most often committed by white males in the 30 to 55

age group..usually people with personality issues - a need to control others, ego problems. When something screws up their world (lost job, marital problems, cheating spouse/girlfriend) their first answer is kill those they blame for their problems. Their second answer is oops now I'm screwed so I'll kill myself and cheat justice and have that last measure of control.

We just had a guy here in Orlando kill his wife's son at their bar they owned, then drive home and kill the wife, then he shot a cop blinding him in one eye - he may end up totally blind - and then he killed himself.

He had all sorts of guns, assault rifles, 50 caliber rifles, body armor - the cops were afraid to go into the guys house because he was armed to the teeth. They finally went in and found him and his wife dead.

Doug D.
Orlando FL

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4. Gun control? Anyone?

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5. That's what I want to know. How was this allowed to happen?!?

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6. Makes me sick.