MOSCOW, January 28 (RIA Novosti) - A U.S. man in the
Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington shot dead his wife and
five children, and later committed suicide saying he was
saddened over the family's job situation, local TV said citing
police.
KABC-TV said the father Ervin Lupoe was found dead with
his wife Ana, their 8-year-old daughter and two sets of twins -
5-year-old girls and 2-year-old boys- on Tuesday. Police
arrived minutes after the killings and said the smell of
gunshot was still in the air.
Officers said they went to the house after the TV channel
informed them that it had received Lupoe's telephone call and a
fax saying that "he was despondent over a job situation and he
saw no reasonable way out."
"Why leave our children in someone else's hands," Lupoe
said in his letter that KABC-TV posted on its website.
In the letter, Lupoe said both he and his wife had been
fired from the Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical
Clinic, where they worked as technicians, and stressed that Ana
had been involved in the planned killings, which was a way out
of the family's financial problems.
However, police said Ervin was the main suspect as the gun
was found next to his body.
The hospital said in a statement it was "deeply saddened
to hear of the tragic deaths."
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