Man Kills Estranged Wife, 4-Year-Old Daughter, & Mother-In-Law In Murder-Suicide Amid Divorce
20.05.2022 - 21:25
/ perezhilton.com
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Multiple members of a family are dead after an apparent murder-suicide in a northwest area of Harris County near Houston, Texas.
According to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, who first reported on the tragedy on Thursday, law enforcement officers responded to the scene of an apartment complex in the northwestern portion of the south Texas county. Once there, they discovered “four persons confirmed deceased inside,” according to a press release published by the government office.
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The HCSO, which first altered the public to the tragedy on their official Facebook page, noted that “a pistol” was recovered at the scene of the incident. Along with it, early investigative work into the deaths is looking into the possibility that it is a murder-suicide related to an ongoing contentious divorce between a man and woman.
The sheriff’s office reported in their Facebook post (below):
Just awful…
In a media briefing later on Thursday, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez spoke to local news outlets about the timing of the tragedy, and what detectives believe they already may know about the context around it. Speaking candidly to reporters, Sheriff Gonzalez said “there’s definitely a domestic-violence nexus” to the four deaths.
He also added more during that media briefing, which was held on Thursday evening outside the apartment complex where the shooting took place (below):
Gonzalez said the man allegedly involved “possibly slashed” his estranged wife’s car tires in a prior incident, and police are apparently looking deeper into the history there.
When the wife failed to show up for work on Thursday