Conley
07-03-2011, 02:01 PM
Father kills 2 sons and himself, Chula Vista police say
The man was reportedly upset about financial problems and a custody battle. The killings are the third murder-suicide in San Diego County in a month.
On June 1, police found the bodies of Mary Alvarez, 41; her daughter Angelica, 12, and son Hamid, 11, in their three-story townhome in Chula Vista. Police believe they were strangled by Alvarez's former live-in boyfriend, Alfredo Almonte, 37, who then committed suicide by leaping off a freeway bridge in the Spring Valley area.
A week earlier, a family of four was found dead in the Paradise Hills neighborhood of San Diego. The bodies of the father and two daughters were found in the home's swimming pool, the mother's in the bathtub. Suicide notes, written by the mother and father, indicated that the family was in financial trouble.
Police believe that Alfredo Pimienta, 44, killed his daughters, Priscilla, 17, and Emily, 9, and his wife, Georgina, 38, before killing himself. The medical examiner has yet to announce the cause of death; toxicology tests are pending.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/22/local/la-me-0622-three-dead-20110622
I am seeing more and more of these types of stories, not just in San Diego but across the country. People are killing themselves and loved ones rather than becoming homeless. There is no excuse for murder. Regardless, it is clear that the state of the economy is taking a very real toll on our fellow Americans. Stories like this give the foreclosure numbers and unemployment rates a more human element, even if the current federal government would rather ignore them and pretend we've 'recovered'.
The man was reportedly upset about financial problems and a custody battle. The killings are the third murder-suicide in San Diego County in a month.
On June 1, police found the bodies of Mary Alvarez, 41; her daughter Angelica, 12, and son Hamid, 11, in their three-story townhome in Chula Vista. Police believe they were strangled by Alvarez's former live-in boyfriend, Alfredo Almonte, 37, who then committed suicide by leaping off a freeway bridge in the Spring Valley area.
A week earlier, a family of four was found dead in the Paradise Hills neighborhood of San Diego. The bodies of the father and two daughters were found in the home's swimming pool, the mother's in the bathtub. Suicide notes, written by the mother and father, indicated that the family was in financial trouble.
Police believe that Alfredo Pimienta, 44, killed his daughters, Priscilla, 17, and Emily, 9, and his wife, Georgina, 38, before killing himself. The medical examiner has yet to announce the cause of death; toxicology tests are pending.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/22/local/la-me-0622-three-dead-20110622
I am seeing more and more of these types of stories, not just in San Diego but across the country. People are killing themselves and loved ones rather than becoming homeless. There is no excuse for murder. Regardless, it is clear that the state of the economy is taking a very real toll on our fellow Americans. Stories like this give the foreclosure numbers and unemployment rates a more human element, even if the current federal government would rather ignore them and pretend we've 'recovered'.