The identities of 10-year-old twins killed in a suspected murder-suicide by their father in California have been released.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner listed the children’s names as Greysen Chavez and Joseph Chavez. No cause of death was listed for the boys.
The horror unfolded Sunday at a residence in the 8016 block of Owensmouth Avenue in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Canoga Park.
Investigators believe the case was a murder-suicide, though authorities have not publicly released details about what led to the tragedy.
The father, whose identity has not yet been confirmed, is believed to have shot the kids before killing himself.
Reports indicated the violence may have occurred during a family gathering, although cops have not confirmed those details.
The investigation remains ongoing, and officials have not released a possible motive.
Pictures showed a woman, who has not been identified, lying on the ground in a man’s arms covering her face as she cried following the family gathering.
“That’s just really sad. Two little kids and a dad. That’s a family. Nobody deserves that,” another woman at the scene told ABC7 Eyewitness News.
She added: “I felt like, even though we might not see their family, we thought that they needed some prayer and some thought, because, like, I don’t know, I know me personally, whether I know them or not, I would want to pray for someone’s healing and just overall as a person, because that’s really sad and I don’t wish that upon anybody.”
Another local, named only as CC Pelkey, told KTLA: “My heart is breaking for this family because this is tragic. This should never happen to anybody.
“The kids never had a chance to have a life, and I don’t know why the father, if he did have issues, couldn’t have gotten help. Why? To take his children’s lives and his own life. It’s just, there are no words right now.”
Read the full article here
