murdersuicide

A man in his 80s killed three of his family members in a Granada Hills home before killing himself Saturday night, officials said. Suicide prevention and crisis counseling resources If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, seek help from a professional and call 9-8-8. The United States’ first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline 988 will connect callers with trained mental health counselors. Text “HOME” to 741741 in the U.S. and Canada to reach the Crisis Text Line. The…

The firefighter lay bleeding at the remote station in Agua Dulce. He’d been shot several times, once through the neck.Tory Carlon moaned in pain. His assailant — a fellow firefighter at Fire Station 81— kept a semi-automatic handgun trained on the 44-year-old sprawled in the engine bay.“Payback’s a bitch, motherf—!” Jonathan Tatone said.Carlon had feared this day would come. Over the past two years, he’d been the target of Tatone’s anger.Constantly on edge, Carlon refused to drink coffee from the communal pot after a…

A local newspaper has pulled an obituary praising a deceased Utah man for his “life of service” and dedication to his family, all the while ignoring the way that he died—a murder-suicide that took the life of his wife, five children, and mother-in-law. The obituary described his children as “truly a cherished miracle” despite of the fact that he killed them. The Spectrum, a Gannett-owned local news outlet in Southern Utah, took down the obituary for 42-year-old Michael Haight days after being lambasted by both media…

Two people were found dead Tuesday at UC Irvine in what is believed to be a murder-suicide. University police were called around 3:52 p.m. for a report of a man and a woman on the ground outside the School of Social Sciences, said Sgt. Karie Davies, an Irvine Police Department spokesperson.Campus police called Irvine police, who took over the investigation, Davies said. The two people, who were not identified, are believed to be related, she said. The incident is being investigated as a murder-suicide. After a…