Horror in
A suspected murder-suicide leaves a man, a mother and her two young children dead.
Meanwhile, their father is hospitalized, listed in critical condition.
It started just before seven Sunday morning. Fresno Police responded to the
What began as a disturbance quickly turned to a murder-suicide.
A next door neighbor of the couple told CBS47 she heard arguing all night long and then woke up this morning to find four people were dead.
Her heart goes out to the two young children who were shot to death.
Family members came to the apartment complex, in tears. Neighbors say the grandmother was at the apartments to pick up her grandchildren for lunch. She learned they had been shot to death.
“Its shocking and its devastating,” said neighbor Rosa Gutierrez.
Gutierrez lives next door and says the couple had been arguing all night. Police say it appears the mother shot her children and another adult in the apartment before turning the gun on herself.
“Her way of controlling the situation was taking her own life and her kids... The people she brought into this world, with her,” Gutierrez said.
Neighbors say all of the children play together in this complex. They say the couple was quiet and mostly kept to themselves.
"This is a whole family... Not just one person, a whole damn family,” said neighbor Eric Gonzalez,
As more family members got to the scene, the grandmother had to be transported to the hospital for evaluation. Neighbors say this entire situation is tragic.
“How could you do something like that? It’s just devastating,” said Rosa Gutierrez.