You find out your husband has had an affair, and his lover is pregnant with his child. Would you stay?
The woman in this true crime did not stay. She told her husband they were done, and she’d be seeking a divorce. Their four children would now be the children of a broken home. Sadly, that’s not how this story ended.
The husband, a licensed security guard, left work early on that fateful day. He drove straight to his home where his 51-year-old mother-in-law was babysitting his four children (ages 11, 7, 2, and 18-months). His estranged wife was out to dinner with friends.
It took him seven minutes and 20 gunshots to annihilate his family. In a blink, his children and mother-in-law lay dead in their family home. He left them for his wife to find and drove himself to a Sheriff Dept. office where he turned himself in.
Before law enforcement arrived at the home, the wife returned and found her dead children and mother. Neighbors reported they heard her screams. She called 9-1-1 and reported her husband had killed her family.
Medical response personnel could not resuscitate the victims.
The husband chose a trial. At the trial, his attorney said his client wasn’t able to process that his marriage was dissolving. The jury found him guilty of five counts of first-degree murder and three counts of assault on a child causing death for his three youngest children.
The sentencing judge ordered five life sentences to run consecutively (one after the other) saying,
“Each victim deserves this.”
The judge also said she believed,
“The killings were a deliberate and intentional act.”
She noted the defendant appeared to lack remorse.
Source: Los Angeles Sheriff Department, Law & Crime, Los Angeles Daily News, ABC 7 – Eyewitness News
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